Measuring empowerment
Subtitle: cross-disciplinary perspectives
By: edited by Deepa Narayan.
Contributors: Narayan-Parker, Deepa.; World Bank.
Publisher: World Bank; World Bank Publications
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 475
Subjects: Community development -- Developing countries.; Poverty -- Developing countries.
Description: "Measuring Empowerment is an invaluable resource for planners, practitioners, evaluators, and students - indeed for all who are interested in approaches to poverty reduction that address issues of inequitable power relations."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Conceptual framework and methodological challenges / Deepa Narayan; title: Evaluating empowerment : a framework with cases from Latin America / Patti Petesch, Catalina Smulovitz, and Michael Walton; title: Women's empowerment as a variable in international development / Anju Malhotra and Sidney Ruth Schuler; title: Measuring women's empowerment : learning from cross-national research / Karen Oppenheim Mason; title: Gender, power, and empowerment : an analysis of household and family dynamics / Joy Deshmukh-Ranadive; title: Psychological empowerment and subjective well-being / Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener; title: Subjective well-being and objective measures : insecurity and inequality in emerging markets / Carol Graham and Stefano Pettinato; title: Self-rated power and welfare in Russia / Michael Lokshin and Martin Ravallion; title: Applying Q methodology to empowerment / Steven R. Brown; title: Analytical issues in measuring empowerment at the community and local levels / Norman Uphoff; title: Peace, conflict, and empowerment : the Colombian case / Caroline Moser; title: Measuring empowerment at the community level : an economist's perspective / Asim Ijaz Khwaja; title: Mixing qualitative and econometric methods : community-level applications / Vijayendra Rao and Michael Woolcock; title: Assessing empowerment at the national level in Eastern Europe and Central Asia / Christiaan Grootaert; title: The CIVICUS civil society index / Carmen Malena and Volkhart Finn Heinrich; title: Empowerment as a positive-sum game / Stephen Knack; title: Democracy and poverty / Ashutosh Varshney; title: Empowering the poor : what does democracy have to do with it? / Larry Diamond; title: Measuring democratic governance : central tasks and basic problems / Gerardo L. Munck.