Knowing Poverty
Subtitle: Critical Reflections on Participatory Research and Policy
Contributors: Karen Brock (Editor); Rosemary McGee (Editor)
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Published: August 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781853838996
Subjects: Development economics; Poverty; Social research & statistics; Sociology; Participant observation; Social Science; Third World Development; Developing Countries; Economic Conditions; Political Science / Economic Conditions; Economic assistance, Domestic
First sentence: THIS CHAPTER EXPLORES one way in which the impact of participatory poverty research for policy might be enhanced.
Description: The use of participatory research techniques to provide policy-makers with information about poor people's perspectives on poverty became increasingly common in the 1990s. 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 1990s witnessed a shift in the application of participatory methodologies adding to the project planning approaches of the 1980s a new focus on participatory research for policy. Much of this centres on poverty issues. In this volume contributions from re.