Knowing poverty : critical reflections on participatory research and policy / / edited by Karen Brock and Rosemary McGee

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; Sterling, Va. : , : Earthscan Publications, , 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (223 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.5/07/23
• Soggetto topico: Economic assistance, Domestic; Poverty; Participant observation
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BrockKaren McGeeRosemary
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The self in participatory poverty research / Rosemary McGee -- Participatory analyses of poverty dynamics : reflections on the Myanmar PPA / Paul Shaffer -- Learning from Uganda's efforts to learn from the poor : reflections and lessons from the Uganda Participatory Poverty Assessment Project / Jenny Yates & Leonard Okello -- Who is listening? : the impact of participatory poverty research on policy / Adan ... [et al.] -- Power, knowledge and policy influence : reflections on an experience / Robert Chambers -- Retelling worlds of poverty : reflections on transforming participatory research for a global narrative / Anne Rademacher and Raj Patel.
• Sommario/riassunto: The use of participatory research techniques to provide policy-makers with information about poor people's perspectives on poverty became increasingly common in the 1990's. This book focuses on the use of participatory research in poverty reduction policies, and presents a series of participants' reflections on recent and ongoing processes. The 1990's witnessed a shift in the application of participatory methodologies, adding to the project planning approaches of the 1980's a new focus on participatory research for policy. Much of this centres on poverty issues. In this volume, contributions from
• Titolo autorizzato: Knowing poverty
• ISBN: 1-84977-180-4; 1-136-56246-X; 1-280-47574-9; 9786610475742; 1-136-56245-1; 600-00-0253-X; 1-4175-2218-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455824303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II