This latest Voices of the Poor study advances the participatory research tradition of the previous World Bank Voices works with new modules focusing on poor peoples' action recommendations. In the summer of 2002, 942 poor women and men from ten poor communities of Colombia discussed urgent...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Terms and Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: The Colombia Study: Proposals for Action -- Country Context -- Why a Participatory Approach? -- Chapter 2: Employment, Work, and Opportunities -- Urban Livelihoods: Informality on the Rise -- Deterioration...

We consider cooperative games with transferable utility (TU-games), in which we allow for a social structure on the set of players. The social structure is utilized to refine the core of the game. For every coalition the relative strength of a player within that coalition is induced by the...