Power, Rights and Poverty
Author | : Ruth Alsop |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780821363102 |
ISBN-13 | : 0821363107 |
Rating | : 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: This publication contains a number of essays and supplementary materials based on a two-day working meeting, held in Washington D.C. in March 2004 and organised jointly by the World Bank and the UK Department for International Development, to consider the relationships between power, rights and poverty reduction issues in theory and practice. Issues addressed include: competing definitions and concepts of power and rights, using experiences drawn from different countries; ways of helping development practitioners to apply these concepts to their work; a summary of the major theoretical conceptualisations of power and a literature review on power and rights.