TY - BOOK AU - Karen Brock (editor) AU - McGee, Rosemary (Editor). TI - Knowing Poverty: Critical Reflections on Participatory Research and Policy SN - 9781853838996 U1 - 362.5 PY - 2002/// CY - London ; , Sterling, VA : PB - Earthscan Publications, KW - Economic assistance, Domestic. KW - Poverty. KW - Participant observation N1 - Includes index; The self in participatory poverty research / Rosemary McGee -- Participatory analyses of poverty dynamics : reflections on the Myanmar PPA / Paul Shaffer -- Learning from Uganda's efforts to learn from the poor : reflections and lessons from the Uganda Participatory Poverty Assessment Project / Jenny Yates & Leonard Okello -- Who is listening? : the impact of participatory poverty research on policy / Ahmed Adan [and others] -- Power, knowledge and policy influence : reflections on an experience / Robert Chambers -- Retelling worlds of poverty : reflections on transforming participatory research for a global narrative / Anne Rademacher and Raj Patel N2 - The use of participatory research techniques to provide policy-makers with information about poor people's perspectives on poverty became increasingly common in the 1990s. This book focuses on the use of participatory research in poverty reduction policies and presents a series of participants' reflections on recent and ongoing processes. The 1990s witnessed a shift in the application of participatory methodologies adding to the project planning approaches of the 1980s a new focus on participatory research for policy. Much of this centres on poverty issues. In this volume contributions from re ER -