Introduction -- Ghana : "empty pockets" -- Malawi : " tangled web" -- Nigeria : illbeing and insecurity -- Bangladesh : waves of disaster -- India : gains and stagnation in Bihar and Andhra Pradesh -- Indonesia : coping with vulnerability and crisis -- Bosnia and Herzegovina : war-torn lives -- Bulgaria : reeling from change -- Kyrgyz Republic : crumbling support, deepening poverty -- The Russian Federation : struggling against the tide -- Argentina : life used to be better -- Brazil : gains and losses in the favelas -- Ecuador : the perils of poverty -- Jamaica : island in a turbulent world -- Conclusion : an empowering approach to poverty reduction
Summary
A multi-country research initiative to understand poverty from the eyes of the poor, the Voices of the Poor project was undertaken to inform the World Bank's activities. "From Many Lands" offers regional patterns and country case-studies [from publisher's advertisment]
