Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Studies and Monographs Series No. 20. This study describes the practices and processes of participatory methods that tap the knowledge the poor have about their own reality. The Participatory Poverty Assessment uses methods to measure and facilitate "listening to the poor." Participatory tools show how the poor view poverty, inflation, and other economic and social trends. In addition, the study established the high economic returns to village social capital, measured by density of groups with particular characteristics.
Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Studies and Monographs Series No. 20. This study describes the practices and processes of partici...
'From Many Lands' gives us an opportunity to meet the invisible people, see their invisible world, and hear their voices as they talk among themselves and talk to us. What this will mean to us, that is up to us to decide. Muhammad Yunus Founder and Managing Director; Grameen Bank
Voices of the Poor is a multicountry research initiative to understand poverty from the standpoint of the poor. The Voices of the Poor project was undertaken to inform the World Bank's activities and the World Development Report 2000/2001.
There are three books from this project:...
'From Many Lands' gives us an opportunity to meet the invisible people, see their invisible world, and hear their voices as they talk among themsel...