Collective action and property rights for poverty reduction: A review of methods and approaches

While much attention has been given to examining various aspects of poverty, a number of studies have shown that institutional environment in which the poor exist conditions welfare outcomes, thus highlighting the inherently crucial importance of institutions for poverty reduction. The institutions...

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Autores principales: Mwangi, Esther, Markelova, Helen
Formato: Artículo preliminar
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Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160668
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description While much attention has been given to examining various aspects of poverty, a number of studies have shown that institutional environment in which the poor exist conditions welfare outcomes, thus highlighting the inherently crucial importance of institutions for poverty reduction. The institutions of property rights and collective action are among those identified as playing a major role in the livelihood strategies of the poor. This paper highlights ways to operationalize the conceptual framework developed by Di Gregorio and colleagues (2008), which provides an analytical tool to study poverty through the institutional lens with a special focus on collective action and property rights. By emphasizing the multidimensionality of poverty, the authors advocate the importance of applying various approaches and tools to conceptualizing and measuring it. They also emphasize the crucial role that institutions of collective action and property rights play in poverty reduction and sketch out theoretical nuances and methods of examining such institutions. In addition, power relations and political context are seen to be of outmost importance in poverty-related studies; the authors provide suggestions on how to understand and operationalize various dimensions of power and institutional environment in research. Outcomes are approached from the evaluative standpoint, which moves beyond straightforward empirical measurement of certain indicators to a comprehensive analysis that would involve a range of methods and approaches to both the definition and measurement of criteria that affect the complex reality of the poor.
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spelling CGSpace1606682025-02-24T06:47:14Z Collective action and property rights for poverty reduction: A review of methods and approaches Mwangi, Esther Markelova, Helen collective action property rights poverty alleviation evaluation vulnerability energy institutions policies poverty economic aspects community organizations While much attention has been given to examining various aspects of poverty, a number of studies have shown that institutional environment in which the poor exist conditions welfare outcomes, thus highlighting the inherently crucial importance of institutions for poverty reduction. The institutions of property rights and collective action are among those identified as playing a major role in the livelihood strategies of the poor. This paper highlights ways to operationalize the conceptual framework developed by Di Gregorio and colleagues (2008), which provides an analytical tool to study poverty through the institutional lens with a special focus on collective action and property rights. By emphasizing the multidimensionality of poverty, the authors advocate the importance of applying various approaches and tools to conceptualizing and measuring it. They also emphasize the crucial role that institutions of collective action and property rights play in poverty reduction and sketch out theoretical nuances and methods of examining such institutions. In addition, power relations and political context are seen to be of outmost importance in poverty-related studies; the authors provide suggestions on how to understand and operationalize various dimensions of power and institutional environment in research. Outcomes are approached from the evaluative standpoint, which moves beyond straightforward empirical measurement of certain indicators to a comprehensive analysis that would involve a range of methods and approaches to both the definition and measurement of criteria that affect the complex reality of the poor. 2008 2024-11-21T09:51:31Z 2024-11-21T09:51:31Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160668 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161760 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7679.2009.00448.x Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Mwangi, Esther; Markelova, Helen. 2008. Collective action and property rights for poverty reduction. CAPRi Working Paper 0082. https://doi.org/10.2499/capriwp82.
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poverty alleviation
evaluation
vulnerability
energy
institutions
policies
poverty
economic aspects
community organizations
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Markelova, Helen
Collective action and property rights for poverty reduction: A review of methods and approaches
title Collective action and property rights for poverty reduction: A review of methods and approaches
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title_short Collective action and property rights for poverty reduction: A review of methods and approaches
title_sort collective action and property rights for poverty reduction a review of methods and approaches
topic collective action
property rights
poverty alleviation
evaluation
vulnerability
energy
institutions
policies
poverty
economic aspects
community organizations
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