Measuring Empowerment : Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives.

"Measuring Empowerment is an invaluable resource for planners, practitioners, evaluators, and students - indeed for all who are interested in approaches to poverty reduction that address issues of inequitable power relations."--Jacket.

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Narayan-Parker, Deepa
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : World Bank, 2005
Series:World Bank e-Library.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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 Schuler
  • Measuring women's empowerment : learning from Cross-National Research / Karen Oppenheim Mason
  • gender, power, and empowerment : an analysis of household and family dynamics / Joy Deshmukh-Ranadive
  • Psychological empowerment and subjective well-being / Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener
  • Subjective well-being and objective measures : insecurity and inequality in emerging markets / Carol Graham and Stefano Pettinato
  • Self-rated power and welfare in Russia / Michael Lokshin and Martin Ravallion
  • Applying Q methodology to empowerment / Steven R. Brown
  • Analytical issues in measuring empowerment at the community and local levels / Norman Uphoff
  • Peace, conflict, and empowerment : the Colombian case / Caroline Moser
  • Measuring empowerment at the community level : an economist's perspective / Asim Ijaz Khwaja
  • Mixing qualitative and econometric methods : community-level applications / Vijayendra Rao and Michael Woolcock
  • Assessing empowerment at the national level in Eastern Europe and Central Asia / Christiaan Grootaert
  • The CIVICUS civil society index / Carmen Malena and Volkhart Finn Heinrich
  • Empowerment as a positive-sum game / Stephen Knack
  • Democracy and poverty / Ashutosh Varshney
  • Empowering the poor : what does democracy have to do with it? / Larry Diamond
  • Measuring democratic governance : central tasks and basic problems / Gerardo L. Munck.