| Moving Out of Poverty: Rising from the Ashes of Conflict Volume 4 2010 Edition Contributor(s): Uk, Palgrave MacMillan (Author), Narayan, Deepa (Editor), Petesch, Patti (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0821376314 ISBN-13: 9780821376317 Publisher: World Bank Publications OUR PRICE: $39.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2010 Annotation: This book brings together the latest thinking about poverty dynamics from diverse analytic traditions. While covering a vast body of conceptual and empirical knowledge about economic and social mobility, the ten chapters take the reader on compelling journeys of multigenerational accounts of three villages in Kanartaka, India; twelve years in the life of a street child in Burkina Faso; a shorter term comparative examination of country-wide experiences with mobility in rich nations; and much more. The authors -- leading development practitioners and scholars from the fields of anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology -- critically examine the literature from their disciplines and contribute new frameworks and evidence from their own works. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Development - Business Development - Business & Economics | Economics - Macroeconomics - Business & Economics | Development - Economic Development |
| Dewey: 339.460 |
| Series: Moving Out of Poverty |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.1" W x 8.9" (1.65 lbs) 576 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "There is no peace with hunger. Only promises and promises and no fulfillment. If there is no job, there is no peace. If there is nothing to cook in the pot, there is no peace." - Oscar, a 57-year-old man, El Gorri n, Colombia "They want to construct their houses near the road, and they cannot do that if they do not have peace with their enemies. So peace and the road have developed a symbiotic relation. One cannot live without the other. . . ." - A community leader from a conflict-affected community on the island of Mindanao, Philippines Most conflict studies focus on the national level, but this volume focuses on the community level. It explores how communities experience and recover from violent conflict, and the surprising opportunities that can emerge for poor people to move out of poverty in these harsh contexts. 'Rising from the Ashes of Conflict' reveals how poor people's mobility is shaped by local democracy, people's associations, aid strategies, and the local economic environment in over 100 communities in seven conflict-affected countries, including Afghanistan. The findings suggest the need to rethink postconflict development assistance. This is the fourth volume in a series derived from the Moving Out of Poverty study, which explores mobility from the perspectives of poor people in more than 500 communities across 15 countries. |
