Measuring Empowerment : Cross Disciplinary Perspectives

Narayan, Deepa

Washington, DC: World Bank

关键词: ACCESS TO INFORMATION;    ACCESS TO JUSTICE;    ACCESS TO LAND;    ACCESS TO MARKETS;    ACCESS TO SERVICES;   

DOI  :  10.1596/0-8213-6057-4
RP-ID  :  34410

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Poverty reduction on a large scaledepends on empowering those who are most motivated to moveout of poverty-poor people themselves. But if empowermentcannot be measured, it will not be taken seriously indevelopment policy making and programming. Building on the"Empowerment and Poverty Reduction Sourcebook,"this volume outlines a conceptual framework that can be usedto monitor and evaluate programs centered on empowermentapproaches. It presents the perspectives of 27 distinguishedresearchers and practitioners in economics, politicalscience, sociology, psychology, anthropology, anddemography, all of whom are grappling in different ways withthe challenge of measuring empowerment. The authors drawfrom their research and experiences at different levels,from households to communities to nations, in variousregions of the world. Measuring Empowerment is a resourcefor all who are interested in approaches to povertyreduction that address issues of inequitable power relations.