Quantitative and Qualitative Methods for Poverty Analysis
Author: Walter Odhiambo
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 174
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Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Research in Development Projects
Author: Michael Bamberger
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780821344316
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA report based on a workshop held in 1998 at which outside research specialists and World Bank staff discussed the importance of integrating quantitative and qualitative research methods and reviewed experiences in the use of mixed method approaches in Bank research and project design.
Q-squared, Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Poverty Appraisal
Author: S. M. Ravi Kanbur
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9788178240534
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncreasingly It Is Recognized That Policy Design For Attacking Poverty Requires An Approach That Makes Best Use Of The Relative Strengths Of Qualitative And Quantitative Analytical Tools, Applied To The Situation At Hand. This Volume Brings Together The World Leaders In Analysis From Both Sides Of The Divide To Push The Dialogue Forward.
Combining the Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Poverty Measurement and Analysis
Author: Soniya Carvalho
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 42
ISBN-13: 9780821339558
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study examines the impact of paddy irrigation investments, operations, and maintenance in Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam, as well as the conclusions of a performance audit of flood control schemes at three sites in Bangladesh. Findings from the review contradict the dominant model for government-operated, gravity-fed irrigation schemes in the humid tropics. The irrigation schemes are performing less well than expected at appraisal, mainly because of falling paddy prices, overoptimism about the crop area served, and project design faults. Results emphasize the value of co-production, involving pragmatic approaches to operation and maintenance under which public irrigation agencies, local authorities, and farmers work together to address specific problems and strengthen appropriate incentives.
Handbook of Methodological Approaches to Community-based Research
Author: Leonard Jason
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 0190243651
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Handbook of Methodological Approaches to Community-Based Research is intended to aid the community-oriented researcher in learning about and applying cutting-edge quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches.
Doing Development Research
Author: Vandana Desai
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2006-03-15
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1847877826
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDoing Development Research is a comprehensive introduction to research in development studies, that provides thorough training for anyone carrying out research in developing countries. It brings together experts with extensive experience of overseas research, presenting an interdisciplinary guide to the core methodologies. Informed by years of research experience, Doing Development Research draws together many strands of action research and participatory methods, demonstrating their diverse applications and showing how they interrelate. The text provides: · an account of the theoretical approaches that underlie development work · an explanation of the practical issues involved in planning development research · a systematic overview of information and data collecting methods in three sub-sections: · methods of social research and associated forms of analysis · using existing knowledge and records · disseminating findings/research Using clear and uncomplicated language – illustrated with appropriate learning features throughout - the text guides the researcher through the choice of appropriate methods, the implementation of the research, and the communication of the findings to a range of audiences. This is the essential A-Z of development research.
Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty
Author: Louis-Marie Asselin
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2009-08-29
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1441908439
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPoverty is a paradoxical state. Recognizable in the eld for any sensitive observer who travels in remote rural areas and urban slums and meets marginalized people in a given society, poverty still remains a challenge to conceptual formalization and to measurement that is consistent with such formalization. The analysis of poverty is multidisciplinary. It goes from ethics to economics, from political science to human biology, and any type of measurement rests on mathematics. Moreover, poverty is multifaceted according to the types of deprivation, and it is also gender and age speci c. A vector of variables is required, which raises a substantial problem for individual and group comparisons necessary to equity analysis. Multidimension- ity also complicates the aggregation necessary to perform the ef ciency analysis of policies. In the case of income poverty, these two problems, equity and ef ciency, have bene ted from very signi cant progress in the eld of economics. Similar achievements are still to come in the area of multidimensional poverty. Within this general background, this book has a very modest and narrow-scoped objective. It proposes an operational methodology for measuring multidimensional poverty, independent from the conceptual origin, the size and the qualitative as well as the quantitative nature of the primary indicators used to describe the poverty of an individual, a household or a sociodemographic entity.
Analysis of Poverty Data by Small Area Estimation
Author: Monica Pratesi
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2016-02-23
Total Pages: 485
ISBN-13: 1118815017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive guide to implementing SAE methods for poverty studies and poverty mapping There is an increasingly urgent demand for poverty and living conditions data, in relation to local areas and/or subpopulations. Policy makers and stakeholders need indicators and maps of poverty and living conditions in order to formulate and implement policies, (re)distribute resources, and measure the effect of local policy actions. Small Area Estimation (SAE) plays a crucial role in producing statistically sound estimates for poverty mapping. This book offers a comprehensive source of information regarding the use of SAE methods adapted to these distinctive features of poverty data derived from surveys and administrative archives. The book covers the definition of poverty indicators, data collection and integration methods, the impact of sampling design, weighting and variance estimation, the issue of SAE modelling and robustness, the spatio-temporal modelling of poverty, and the SAE of the distribution function of income and inequalities. Examples of data analyses and applications are provided, and the book is supported by a website describing scripts written in SAS or R software, which accompany the majority of the presented methods. Key features: Presents a comprehensive review of SAE methods for poverty mapping Demonstrates the applications of SAE methods using real-life case studies Offers guidance on the use of routines and choice of websites from which to download them Analysis of Poverty Data by Small Area Estimation offers an introduction to advanced techniques from both a practical and a methodological perspective, and will prove an invaluable resource for researchers actively engaged in organizing, managing and conducting studies on poverty.
Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
Author: David L. Morgan
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2013-06-21
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1483313662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on research designs for projects that collect both qualitative and quantitative data, this practical book discusses strategies for bringing qualitative and quantitative methods together so that their combined strengths accomplish more than is possible with a single method. The approach is broadly interdisciplinary, reflecting the interest in mixed methods research of social scientists from anthropology, communication, criminal justice, education, evaluation, nursing, organizational behavior, psychology, political science, public administration, public health, sociology, social work, and urban studies. In contrast to an "anything goes" approach or a naïve hope that "two methods are better than one," the author argues that projects using mixed methods must pay even more attention to research design than single method approaches. The book’s practical emphasis on mixed methods makes it useful both to active researchers and to students who intend to pursue such a career.
Understanding and Measuring Social Capital
Author: Christiaan Grootaert
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780821350683
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work details various methods of gauging social capital and provides illustrative case studies from Mali and India. It also offers a measuring instrument, the Social Capital Assessment Tool, that combines quantitative and qualitative approaches.
