Knack -- Democracy and poverty / Ashutosh Varshney -- Empowering the poor : what does democracy have to do with it? / Larry … Knack -- Democracy and poverty / Ashutosh Varshney -- Empowering the poor : what does democracy h …

Lifting people out of poverty is one of the great challenges facing the international community today. It has become … the world. Almost 1.4 billion people in developing countries live in poverty, according to recent estimates by the World … Bank, and a significant part of this population lives in chronic poverty. This is the fourth in a series of volumes …

The global moving out of poverty study is unique in several respects. It is one of the few large-scale comparative … research efforts to focus on mobility out of poverty rather than on poverty alone. The study draws together the experiences of … poor women and men who have managed to move out of poverty over time and the processes and local institutions that have …

will add to the reader's understanding of how and why people move into and out of poverty. The chapters draw on the latest … longitudinal micro data to present a moving picture of poverty that is rather different from what one can see in single snapshots …, the staple of traditional poverty analysis. The book is also important because the contributors' distinct disciplinary …

change, from material poverty to adequate assets and livelihoods, from exclusion to inclusion, organization, and empowerment. …