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Overview
'Empowerment and Poverty Reduction: A Sourcebook' is an outcome of 'World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty', which highlighted opportunity, empowerment, and security as key elements in the creation and implementation of poverty reduction strategies. This book provides a framework for empowerment that concentrates on increasing poor people's freedom of choice and action to shape their own lives. This framework pertains to five areas of action to improve development effectiveness - provision of basic services, improved local governance, improved national governance, access to justice and legal aid, and pro-poor market development.
This Sourcebook gives 20 Tools and Practices, which concentrate on a wide-range of topics to encourage the empowerment of the poor from poor people's enterprises, information and communication technologies to diagnostic tools including corruption surveys and citizen report cards.
Synopsis
Narayan is with the World Bank's Poverty Reduction and Economic Management program, and writes under the leadership of the Bank's senior management. She highlights the World Bank's current thinking on empowerment to improve development effectiveness. She does not provide an index. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR