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This study describes the practices and processes of participatory methods that tap the knowledge the poor have about their own reality. The Participatory Poverty Assessment uses methods to measure and facilitate "listening to the poor.

TitleVoices of the poor : poverty and social capital in Tanzania
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication1997
AuthorsNarayan, D
Secondary TitleEnvironmentally and socially sustainable development studies and monographs series / World Bank
Paginationxi, 80 p. : 26 boxes, 7 fig., 59 tab.
Date Published1997-01-01
PublisherWorld Bank
Place PublishedWashington, DC, USA
ISBN Number0821340611
Keywordsaccess to water, agriculture, disadvantaged groups, economic aspects, gender, participatory methods, poverty, sdipar, social aspects, tanzania
Abstract

This study describes the practices and processes of participatory methods that tap the knowledge the poor have about their own reality. The Participatory Poverty Assessment uses methods to measure and facilitate "listening to the poor." Participatory tools show how the poor view poverty, inflation, and other economic and social trends. In addition, the study established the high economic returns to village social capital, measured by density of groups with particular characteristics.

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