TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reyes,Celia
AU  - Due,Evan
ED  - International Development Research Centre (Canada)
TI  - Fighting poverty with facts: community-based monitoring systems 
T2  - In focus
SN  - 1552504352
AV  - HC59.72.P6 R49 2009eb
U1  - 362.5/525091724 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Ottawa
PB  - International Development Research Centre
KW  - Poverty
KW  - Research
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Citizen participation
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Poor
KW  - Community development
KW  - Pauvreté
KW  - Recherche
KW  - Pays en voie de développement
KW  - Participation des citoyens
KW  - Méthodologie
KW  - Pauvres
KW  - Développement communautaire
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Poverty & Homelessness
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
N1  - Available also on the Internet; Includes bibliographical references; pt. 1. The issue and development context -- pt. 2. The approach -- pt. 3. Experiences from the field -- pt. 4. Lessons and recommendations -- pt. 5. Ways forward
N2  - 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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