Karen Brock

Gebundenes Buch

Knowing Poverty

Critical Reflections on Participatory Research and Policy

Herausgeber: Mcgee, Rosemary

Beschreibung

The use of participatory research techniques to provide policy-makers with information about poor people's perspectives on poverty became increasingly common in the 1990s. This book focuses on the use of participatory research in poverty reduction policies. It examines how participatory research has affected the way poverty is understood.

Autor

Karen Brock is a researcher at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex. She has carried out research on natural resources management and agro-pastoral livelihoods in Africa, and is currently focusing on policy-making for poverty reduction, and the political economy of knowledge construction. Rosemary McGee is a social development specialist with a background in anthropological research on poverty and policy, poverty assessment methodologies and policy advocacy. She is currently a fellow at IDS, working mainly on civil society participation in policy processes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9781853838996
• ISBN-10: 1853838993
• Artikelnr.: 21272145