This paper provides an overview of the various ways in which mixing qualitative and quantitative methods could add value to monitoring and evaluating development projects. In particular it examines how qualitative methods could address some of the limitations of randomized trials and other...

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...

"No matter if I fall, I get up again. If I fall five thousand times, I will stand up some other five times." William, a 37 years old from El Gorrion, Columbia, recounts his life story.Most books on growth and poverty reduction are dominated by the perspectives of policy makers and academic...

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...