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Poverty reduction on a large scale
depends on empowering those who are most motivated to move
out of poverty-poor people themselves. But if empowerment
cannot be measured, it will not be taken seriously in
development policy making and programming. Building on the
"Empowerment and Poverty Reduction Sourcebook,"
this volume outlines a conceptual framework that can be used
to monitor and evaluate programs centered on empowerment
approaches. It presents the perspectives of 27 distinguished
researchers and practitioners in economics, political
science, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and
demography, all of whom are grappling in different ways with
the challenge of measuring empowerment. The authors draw
from their research and experiences at different levels,
from households to communities to nations, in various
regions of the world. Measuring Empowerment is a resource
for all who are interested in approaches to poverty
reduction that address issues of inequitable power relations.
