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Summary:

"This volume examines the persistence of poverty - both rural and urban - in developing countries, and the response of local governments to the problem, exploring the roles of governments, NGOs, and CSOs in national and sub-national agenda-setting, policy-making, and poverty-reduction strategies. It brings together a rich variety of in-depth country and international studies, based on a combination of original data-collection and extensive research experience in developing countries. Taking a bottom-up and multi-dimensional perspective of poverty and well-being as the starting point, the authors develop a convincing set of arguments for putting the priorities of poor people first on any development agenda, thus carving out an undisputable role for local governance in interplay with higher-up governance actors and institutions."--Publisher's website.

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Researching Well-Being. Well-Being in Theory and Practice Nicky Pouw and Briana Gilmore ; Moving Out of Poverty Deepa Narayan.
• Part II: Rural Poverty, Priorities and Governance Responses. Poverty and Asset Accumulation among Smallholder Farmers in Uganda Nicky Pouw ; Food Security Management, Aid and Governance Michiel Keyzer and Lia van Wesenbeeck ; Governance for Non-Timber Forest Products Mirjam Ros-Tonen and Koen Kusters ; Governance, Poverty and Social Justice in the Coastal Fisheries of India Maarten Bavinck.
• Part III: Urban Poverty, Citizenship and Democracy. Mapping Urban Poverty for Local Governance in India Isa Baud, N. Sridharan and Karin Pfeffer ; Negotiated Spaces for Representation in Mumbai Isa Baud and Navtej Nainan ; Citizenship, Local Governance and Democracy Michaela Hordijk.
• Part IV: The Role of Local and National Institutions. Participatory Assessment of Development in Africa Ton Dietz ; Economic Governance by the Private and Public Sector Maarten Brouwer and Sabine Blokhuis.

Contributors:

Pouw, Nicky

Baud, I. S. A.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Routledge studies in development and society; [volume] 31

Subjects:

Poverty — Government policy — Developing countries

Poverty — Developing countries

Developing countries — Economic policy

Developing countries — Politics and government — 21st century

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

HC59.72.P6 L63 2012eb

ISBNs:

9780203134108 (electronic bk.)
0203134109 (electronic bk.)
9780415887328 [Invalid]
0415887321 [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: 6910743

OCLC Numbers:

787851414

Other Control Numbers:

EBC957205 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp7619651