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Naray., Deepa and Patti Petesch, editors, Voices of the Poor: From many I.ds, 2002, New York, N.Y.: Published for the World Bank, Oxford University Press.
From Many Lands, is the .rd volume in the World Bank's Voices of the Poor series, The Voices of the Poor is an unprecedented study undertaken by the World Bank to record the perceptions that poor people have about their own poverty. Over 60,000 low-income persons from 60 countries were interviewed through focus-group meetings by independent researchers for the study. This latest and last volume focuses on the diversity of poverty in fourteen countries: Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kyrgyz Republic, Bulgaria, Russia, Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador and Jamaica. One of the most striking findings emerging from the study is that despite a great ma, differences in economic, political and social contexts around the world, voicelessness and powerlessness tie together and reinforce the many dimensions of poverty. It highlights the role of mediating institutions in translating political, economic, and social policies into outcomes. The book concludes by describing four patterns that emerge from these very different regions and contexts and by sketching out an empowering approach to development that focuses on four areas of action to increase poor people's as-sets and capabilities: information, inclusion/participation, accountability, and local organizational capacity. This publication is organized as follows: Each country chapter opens up with a brief life. story. These life stories were chosen because they highlight concerns raised not only by poor women and men living in that particular community, but because the same concerns were echoed in other pasts of the country. The chapters them unfold around particular sets of issues that emerged repeatedly in group
Muhammad Sabihuddin Butt. (2000) Book Review, Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics, Volume-16, Issue-1.
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