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Fighting poverty with facts : community-based monitoring systems / by Celia Reyes and Evan Due.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: In focus (International Development Research Centre (Canada))Publication details: Ottawa : International Development Research Centre, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 104 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1552504352
  • 9781552504352
  • 1552504328
  • 9781552504321
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 362.5/525091724 22
LOC classification:
  • HC59.72.P6 R49 2009eb
Other classification:
  • cci1icc
  • coll11
  • coll14
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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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