Measuring empowerment : cross-disciplinary perspectives / Deepa Narayan, editor. - New Delhi ; New York : Washington, D.C. : Oxford University Press ; World Bank, 2006, c2005. - xx, 475 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Originally published: Washington : World Bank, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Conceptual framework and methodological challenges / Deepa Narayan -- Evaluating empowerment : a framework with cases from Latin America / Patti Petesch, Catalina Smulovitz, and Michael Walton -- Women's empowerment as a variable in international development / Anju Malhotra and Sidney Ruth Schuler -- Measuring women's empowerment : learning from Cross-National Research / Karen Oppenheim Mason -- gender, power, and empowerment : an analysis of household and family dynamics / Joy Deshmukh-Ranadive -- Psychological empowerment and subjective well-being / Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener -- Subjective well-being and objective measures : insecurity and inequality in emerging markets / Carol Graham and Stefano Pettinato -- Self-rated power and welfare in Russia / Michael Lokshin and Martin Ravallion -- Applying Q methodology to empowerment / Steven R. Brown -- Analytical issues in measuring empowerment at the community and local levels / Norman Uphoff -- Peace, conflict, and empowerment : the Colombian case / Caroline Moser -- Measuring empowerment at the community level : an economist's perspective / Asim Ijaz Khwaja -- Mixing qualitative and econometric methods : community-level applications / Vijayendra Rao and Michael Woolcock -- Assessing empowerment at the national level in Eastern Europe and Central Asia / Christiaan Grootaert -- The CIVICUS civil society index / Carmen Malena and Volkhart Finn Heinrich -- Empowerment as a positive-sum game / Stephen Knack -- Democracy and poverty / Ashutosh Varshney -- Empowering the poor : what does democracy have to do with it? / Larry Diamond -- Measuring democratic governance : central tasks and basic problems / Gerardo L. Munck.

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Community development -- Developing countries.
Poverty -- Developing countries.

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