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Edited by Ruth Alsop
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While the terms "power" and "rights" are
increasingly incorporated into the language of development agencies
they have yet to fully permeate the practice of poverty reduction.
Acknowledging that this partly results from a lack of clarity over the
concepts of power and rights and partly from questions of how to
operationalize these ideas, the World Bank and the UK Department for
International Development co-sponsored a series of short papers for
focusing on enhancing understanding of the relationships between power,
rights, and poverty reductions.
Following discussion during a two day working meeting, this
publication brings together the edited papers, along with a selection
of supplementary materials. A first series of papers addresses
competing definitions and conceptual issues around power and rights,
illustrating these with experiences observing and applying the concepts
in practice in different countries. Following this, papers address
topics aimed at helping development practitioners to apply these
concepts to their work. Part II contains the supplemental materials,
including a summary of the major theoretical conceptualizations of
power, and an overview of the literature on power and rights. Prepared
by leading thinkers on the topics of power and rights these materials
offer both development professionals and students of development
studies succinct summaries of the relationship between theory and
practice.
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