Moving out of poverty . Volume 2 Success from the bottom up / / Deepa Narayan, Lant Pritchett and Soumya Kapoor

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : World Bank, c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (460 p.)
• Disciplina: 339.46091724; 362.57
• Soggetto topico: Poverty - Developing countries; Social mobility - Economic aspects - Developing countries; Migrant labor - Developing countries - Economic conditions
• Altri autori: Narayan-ParkerDeepa PritchettLant KapoorSoumya
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; Study Team and Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Abbreviations; 1 The Moving Out of Poverty Study: An Overview; Tables; Figures; 2 Stories of the Poor, Stories by the Poor; Boxes; 3 Poverty Is a Condition, Not a Characteristic; 4 I Believe I Can; 5 The Dream of Equal Opportunity; 6 All Politics Is Local: How Better Governance Helps the Poor; 7 The Unfulfilled Potential of Collective Action; 8 Concluding Reflections; Appendix 1 Researchers and Institutions Involved in Country Studies; Appendix 2 Technical Note on Household Regressions; Appendix 3 Data Collection Methods ; Appendix 4 List of Variables for Household RegressionsAppendix 5 Weights for the PCA-Constructed Indexes, by Study Region; Appendix 6 Regression Results Tables for MOP and MPI; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: ""No matter if I fall, I get up again. If I fall five thousand times, I will stand up some other five times."" William, a 37 years old from El Gorrion, Columbia, recounts his life story.Most books on growth and poverty reduction are dominated by the perspectives of policy makers and academic experts. Moving Out of Poverty: Success from the Bottom Up presents the perspectives of poor people who have made it out of poverty. Based on discussions with over 60,000 people across 17 different study regions, it provides a bottom up viewpoint on the processes and local institutions that play key roles
• Titolo autorizzato: Moving out of poverty
• ISBN: 0-8213-7216-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826260603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II