When Things Fall Apart: Qualitative Studies of Poverty in the Former Soviet Union

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Nora Dudwick, Elizabeth Gomart, Alexandre Marc
World Bank Publications, 2003 - 445 Seiten
"Over the past decade, the World Bank has evolved its analysis and reporting on poverty to a multi-dimensional view which includes issues of vulnerability, social isolation, and powerlessness. This broader construct, which considers the concepts of social exclusion and social capital, suggests the need for augmenting quantitative research with qualitative research. Qualitative research provides a focus on understanding human behavior, perceptions and practices that can then be applied to policy development.

This report presents specific examples drawn from World Bank work completed in the countries of the former Soviet Union. Each of these examples illustrates the gains that can be derived from combining the use of quantitative and qualitative research methods."

 

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Seite 335 - Poverty is pain; it feels like a disease. It attacks a person not only materially but also morally. It eats away one's dignity and drives one into total despair.
Seite 341 - For a poor person everything is terrible— illness, humiliation, shame. We are cripples; we are afraid of everything; we depend on everyone. No one needs us. We are like garbage that everyone wants to get rid of.
Seite 328 - In Ukraine, the free development, use and protection of Russian, and other languages of national minorities of Ukraine, is guaranteed.
Seite xii - University and serves as a Research Associate at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University.
Seite 60 - In the corner of the house is a heap of drying grass from which the mother says she will make bread. Her older child takes care of cattle for relatives in exchange for bread. A few days ago, when the mother went begging with a group of women from her village, she was bitten by a dog. The wound became infected, but the family cannot afford the medicines to treat it. Her arm is visibly infected and possibly gangrenous, according to the doctor who interviewed her.
Seite 308 - We do not want handouts. If we had what was taken away from us [in 1944], we would be in fine shape. But this [restitution and compensation] won't happen and we realize this. What we want is a mechanism to defend our rights. We do not want to dictate to anyone, but neither do we want to be dictated to.
Seite xii - Out of the Kitchen, Into the Crossfire" (in Mary Buckley, ed., PostSoviet Women: From Central Asia to the Baltic, 1997), and "Independent Armenia: Paradise Regained or Lost?
Seite xii - Kassimir holds a master's degree in international affairs from the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs...
Seite 153 - Emergency and beyond: a situation analysis of children and women in Armenia', Geneva: UNICEF (January 1994), no pagination, section 22.
Seite 33 - Poverty Shock: The Impact of Rapid Economic Change on the Women of the Kyrgyz Republic Kathleen Kuehnast The...

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