Fighting Poverty with Facts: Community-based Monitoriing Systems
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| Title: | Fighting Poverty with Facts: Community-based Monitoriing Systems |
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| Description: | For more than two decades, governments and development agencies around the world have focused on reducing poverty. There have been advances, but progress has been uneven and nearly a quarter of the world's population still suffers from extreme'income poverty.'Income poverty, however, is only part of the picture. A multi-faceted account of poverty and human welfare incorporates elements that go beyond income to capture the characteristics of poverty as experienced by the poor themselves. This book presents the Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS). CBMS recognizes that the poor must be inv |
| Authors: | Reyes, Celia, Due, Evan |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Poor--Developing countries, Community development--Developing countries, Poverty--Research--Developing countries--Citizen participation, Poverty--Research--Methodology |
| Categories: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | For more than two decades, governments and development agencies around the world have focused on reducing poverty. There have been advances, but progress has been uneven and nearly a quarter of the world's population still suffers from extreme'income poverty.'Income poverty, however, is only part of the picture. A multi-faceted account of poverty and human welfare incorporates elements that go beyond income to capture the characteristics of poverty as experienced by the poor themselves. This book presents the Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS). CBMS recognizes that the poor must be inv |
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| ISBN: | 9781552504321 9781552504352 |
