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来源类型 | Working and discussion papers |
规范类型 | 工作论文 |
Experiencing poverty in Africa: perspectives from anthropology | |
David Booth; Melissa Leach and Alison Tierney | |
发表日期 | 1999 |
出版年 | 1999 |
语种 | 英语 |
概述 | The value of a multi-disciplinary approach to the understanding of poverty and the design of poverty-reduction strategies is now widely accepted. However, this paper argues, current expectations about the potential contribution to poverty analysis from... |
摘要 | The value of a multi-disciplinary approach to the understanding of poverty and the design of poverty-reduction strategies is now widely accepted. However, this paper argues, current expectations about the potential contribution to poverty analysis from disciplines other than economics remain rather too slanted towards what are presumed to be the special strengths of PRA-based PPAs: capturing poor people’s perceptions, identifying their priorities and describing their coping strategies. Properly understood as centring on the observation and interpretation of behaviour, anthropological enquiry has relevant things to say at all the three levels that concern a poverty status report: 1) who are the poor? 2) why are they poor? and 3) what can be done to reduce poverty? Key findings under these headings are:
The main implications for the policy and practice of poverty reduction are:
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URL | https://www.odi.org/publications/5025-experiencing-poverty-africa-perspectives-anthropology |
来源智库 | Overseas Development Institute (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/505135 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | David Booth,Melissa Leach and Alison Tierney. Experiencing poverty in Africa: perspectives from anthropology. 1999. |
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