Conceptual framework and methodological challenges / Deepa Narayan -- Evaluating empowerment : a framework with cases from Latin America / Patti Petesch, Catalina Smulovitz, and Michael Walton -- Women's empowerment as a variable in international development / Anju Malhotra and Sidney Ruth...

Moving Out of Poverty: Rising from the Ashes of Conflict, is the fourth volume from the Moving Out of Poverty series launched in 2007 is under the editorial direction of Deepa Narayan, Senior Advisor of the World Bank and former director of the pathbreaking Voices of the Poor series. It features...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- VOICES OF THE POOR -- Chapter 1 Listening to the Voices of the Poor -- Chapter 2 Definitions of Poverty -- Chapter 3 State Institutions -- Chapter 4 Civil Society Institutions -- Chapter 5 Changing Gender Relations in the Household -- Chapter 6...