Moving Out of Poverty Success from the Bottom Up

by UK, Palgrave Macmillan; Narayan, Deepa; Pritchett, Lant; Kapoor, Soumya

• ISBN13: 9780821372159
• ISBN10: 0821372157
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-25
• Publisher: World Bank Publications

Summary

Why and how do some people move out of poverty-and stay out-while others remain trapped? Most books on growth and poverty reduction are dominated by the perspectives of policy makers and academic experts. In contrast, Moving Out of Poverty: Success from the Bottom Up presents the experiences of poor people who have made it out of poverty.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xiii
Study Team and Acknowledgments	p. xv
About the Authors	p. xix
Abbreviations	p. xxi
The Moving Out of Poverty Study: An Overview	p. 2
Stories of the Poor, Stories by the Poor	p. 50
Poverty Is a Condition, Not a Characteristic	p. 86
I Believe I Can	p. 126
The Dream of Equal Opportunity	p. 180
All Politics Is Local: How Better Governance Helps the Poor	p. 222
The Unfulfilled Potential of Collective Action	p. 280
Concluding Reflections	p. 332
Researchers and Institutions Involved in Country Studies	p. 343
Technical Note on Household Regressions	p. 349
Data Collection Methods	p. 369
List of Variables for Household Regressions	p. 375
Weights for the PCA-Constructed Indexes, by Study Region	p. 379
Regression Results Tables for MOP and MPI	p. 387
References	p. 399
Index	p. 411
Tables
Sample ladders of life from two villages in Andhra Pradesh and Uganda	p. 14
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