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...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Ghana - "Empty Pockets" -- Chapter 3: Malawi - Tangled Web -- Chapter 4: Nigeria - Illbeing and Insecurity -- Chapter 5: Bangladesh - Waves of Disaster -- Chapter 6: India - Gains and Stagnation in Bihar...

"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...

This book brings together the latest thinking about poverty dynamics from diverse analytic traditions. While covering a vast body of conceptual and empirical knowledge about economic and social mobility, it takes the reader on compelling journeys of multigenerational accounts of three villages...