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Subject: [spiritof1848] Paper: From Poverty Assessment to
Policy Change: Processes, Acto rs
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Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:49:48 -0400
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Subject: Paper: From Poverty Assessment to Policy Change: Processes,
Acto rs and Data
>From Poverty Assessment to Policy Change: Processes, Actors and Data
Rosemary McGee and Karen Brock
ISBN 1 85864 364 3 - IDS Working Papers - 133 - July 2001
Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, England
Available as PDF file [46p.] at:
http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/bookshop/wp/wp133.pdf
<http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/bookshop/wp/wp133.pdf>
"......This paper focuses on the production of poverty knowledge through
measurement and assessment, providing an overview of contemporary poverty
assessment approaches, and the issues and dilemmas involved in applying them
in the context of poverty reduction policy processes.
Section One examines the policy process in order to understand the
relationship between poverty knowledge and policy change. It looks at the
way that legitimate knowledge is framed in the policy process -
traditionally, as the domain of technical experts, who reduce complex
phenomena to measurable variables - and how the frame changes if policy is
understood differently, as a more chaotic process with multiple actors
involved.
Section Two - Poverty assessment, examines two broad questions - 'what is
poverty?' and 'why measure it?'. The discussion focuses on the emergence of
an apparent consensus amongst international development actors concerning
what poverty is, and argues that this consensus obscures intense and
wide-ranging debates concerning how poverty should be measured.
Section Three focuses on the range of methodologies which are available for
poverty assessment, and examines the dynamics of choice between different
approaches. Pay particular attention to discussing household surveys and
participatory poverty assessments, and discuss the apparent contradictions
which arise from the different epistemological heritages of each.
In the final section, Poverty knowledge in policy documents, two case
studies examine how international development actors with very different
objectives, the World Bank and Oxfam, used a range of information about
poverty in the construction of their policy messages. The case studies
confirm the argument that, despite the range of technical choices which
inform the practice of poverty assessment, the way that policy is formulated
means that it is the situated agency and objectives of policy actors
themselves that are perhaps the most important component in shaping the
policy narratives that they put forward......."
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