Moving Out of Poverty Rising from the Ashes of Conflict

by UK, Palgrave Macmillan; Narayan, Deepa; Petesch, Patti

• ISBN13: 9780821376317
• ISBN10: 0821376314
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-09
• Publisher: World Bank Publications

Summary

This title, is the fourth volume from the 'Moving Out of Poverty' series which features the results of new comparative research across more than 500 communities in 15 countries to understand how and why people move out of poverty.

Author Biography

DEEPA NARAYAN is project director of a 15-country World Bank study, Moving Out of Poverty: Understanding Freedom, Democracy, and Growth from the Bottom Up, which builds on an earlier study also directed by Narayan, Voices of the Poor.
Formerly a senior adviser in the Poverty Reduction group of the World Bank, Narayan has over 25 years of development experience in Asia and Africa, working for nongovernmental organizations, national governments, and the United Nations system as well as the World Bank Group. Her areas of expertise include participatory development, community-driven development, and social capital, and the use of these concepts to create wealth for the poor. Recent publications include Moving Out of Poverty: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Mobility (World Bank, 2007); Ending Poverty in South Asia: Ideas that Work, co-edited with Elena Glinskaya (World Bank, 2007); and Measuring Empowerment:Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives (World Bank, 2005).

PATTI PETESCH is a specialist in qualitative analysis on the causes of poverty, how people escape poverty, and the role of individual and collective agency in these processes. She freelances for the World Bank and other international development organizations, and served as coordinator for the World Bank's global Voices of the Poor and Moving out of Poverty studies. Her recent publications include Moving Out of Poverty: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Mobility, (edited with D. Narayan); Evaluating Empowerment: A Framework with Cases from Latin America, (with C. Smulovitz and M. Walton); and Voices of the Poor from Colombia: Strengthening Livelihoods, Families and Communities, (with J.Arboleda and J. Blackburn).

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xv
Study Team and Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Contributors	p. xxi
Abbreviations	p. xxv
Building States from the Bottom Up in Conflict-Affected Countries	p. 1
Moving Out of Poverty in Conflict Communities	p. 2
First Steps: Security, Law and Order, and Legitimacy	p. 26
Democracy: Big "D" and Little "d"	p. 52
Nation Building from Below: Identity, Unity, and Civic Engagement	p. 96
The Economic Environment	p. 128
Aid Strategies: Can Chickens and Miserly Handouts Reduce Poverty?	p. 160
Concluding Reflections	p. 182
Country Case Studies	p. 191
Violence, Forced Displacement, and Chronic Poverty in Colombia	p. 192
From Milkless Cows to Coconut Trees: Recovery from Ail-Out War in Mindanao, Philippines	p. 248
Disturbing the Equilibrium: Movements Out of Poverty in Conflict-Affected Areas of Indonesia	p. 290
Community Well-Being and Household Mobility in Postconflict Cambodia: Cambodia Development Resource Institute	p. 338
Sri Lanka: Unequal Mobility in an Ethnic Civil War	p. 376
Post-Taliban Recovery and the Promise of Community-Driven Development in Afghanistan	p. 418
Technical Appendixes	p. 473
Researchers and Institutions Involved in Conflict Country Studies	p. 475
Overview of Study Methodology	p. 479
Data Collection Methods	p. 505
List of Variables for Community Regressions	p. 509
Weights for the PCA-Constructed Indexes	p. 513
Additional Tables for Part 1	p. 515
Index	p. 533
Boxes
Definitions of democracy in Afghanistan and Indonesia	p. 57
Militarized dreams of young children in high-conflict La Soledad, Colombia	p. 140
Partial recovery in Villa Rosa: Alicia's story	p. 224
Violence against Co-Agro	p. 234
Somrampi: The trap of poor governance and continued insecurity	p. 366
Lack of economic catalysts and postwar collapse in urban Shazimir	p. 440
Ramili Qali: Giving up poppy in exchange for aid	p. 447
A gender revolution, yet to come	p. 462
Figures
MOP by initial poverty level, conflict and nonconflict communities	p. 21
Trust in local government among movers and chronic poor in conflict and nonconflict communities, 1995 and 2005	p. 33
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