Moving out of Poverty, Voulme 3 : Mobility and Conflict

Marc Notes: This work brings together the latest thinking about poverty dynamics from diverse analytic traditions. Leading development practitioners and scholars from the fields of anthropology, economics, political science and sociology critically examine the literature from their disciplines and contribute new evidence from their own works.; Avail. in cloth. Table of Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Map of India -- 1. Moving Out of Poverty in India: An Overview / Deepa Narayan, Binayak Sen, Katy Hull -- 2. Assets Gained and Lost: Understanding Mobility through Life Stories / Deepa Narayan, Denis Nikitin, Brice Richard -- 3. Communities Where Poor People Prosper / Deepa Narayan, Patti Petesch, Saumik Paul -- 4. Caste Dynamics and Mobility in Uttar Pradesh / Soumya Kapoor, Deepa Narayan, Saumik Paul, Nina Badgaiyan -- 5. People's Organizations and Poverty Escapes in Rural Andhra Pradesh / Deepa Narayan, Giovanna Prennushi, Soumya Kapoor -- 6. Politics of the Middle Path: Agrarian Reform and Poverty Dynamics in West Bengal / Klaus Deininger, Deepa Narayan, Binayak Sen -- 7. Who Benefits from Conflict? Some Evidence from Assam / Deepa Narayan, Binayak Sen, Ashutosh Varshney -- Appendix 1. Technical Note on Household Regressions -- Appendix 2. Data Collection Methods -- Appendix 3. List of Variables for Household Regressions -- Appendix 4. Weights for the PCA-Constructed Indexes, by State -- Index. Review Citations:

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