Poverty reduction on a large scale depends on empowering those who are most motivated to move out of poverty—poor people themselves. Butif empowerment cannot be measured, it will not be taken seriously indevelopment policy making and programming. Building on the award-winningEmpowerment and Poverty Reduction source book, this volume outlines a conceptualframework that can be used to monitor and evaluate programs centered onempowerment approaches. It presents the perspectives of 27 distinguishedresearchers and practitioners in economics, political science, sociology,psychology, anthropology, and demography, all of whom are grappling indifferent ways with the challenge of measuring empowerment. The authors drawfrom their research and experiences at different levels, from households tocommunities to nations, in various regions of the world.
Deepa Narayan-Parker
World Bank Pub. (2005); ISBN-10: 978-0821360576; 460 p. 0821360574; ISBN-13
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