Measuring empowerment :  cross-disciplinary perspectives / 
edited by Deepa Narayan. 
 - Washington, DC :  World Bank,  c2005. 
 - xx, 475 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
 - World Bank e-Library. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. �|  � 
<br/><br/> "Measuring Empowerment is an invaluable resource for planners, practitioners, evaluators, and students - indeed for all who are interested in approaches to poverty reduction that address issues of inequitable power relations."--BOOK JACKET. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2005. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0821360574 (pbk.) 0821360582 (electronic) 9780821360576 (pbk.) 9780821360583 (electronic) 9780821360583 (eISBN) 9780821360576 9780821360583 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005009407 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Community development--Developing countries.<br/>Poverty--Developing countries.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.569024  / MES 2005