Deepa Narayan
deepanarayan09@gmail.com

She has development experience in Asia and Africa while working across sectors for nongovernmental organizations, national governments and the United Nations. Her areas of expertise include scaled up programs in participatory development, empowerment and community-driven development across sectors. She co-led the early work on social capital and its links to wealth creation. Her current interests include poverty reduction and state-building in fragile and conflict-affected context.

Recent publications include Moving Out of Poverty: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Mobility; Moving Out of Poverty: Success from the Bottom Up; Ending Poverty in South Asia: Ideas that Work; Measuring Empowerment: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives; Empowerment and Poverty Reduction: A Sourcebook; and the three-volume Voices of the Poor series.

Links to recent publications

Books

1. Moving Out of Poverty

Website:

• http://www.worldbank.org/movingoutofpoverty

E-book:

• Volume 1 Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Mobility (ed Deepa Narayan and Patti Petesch)

Publications page:

• Volume 1: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Mobility (ed Deepa Narayan and Patti Petesch)
• Volume 2: Success from the Bottom Up (Deepa Narayan, Lant Pritchett and Soumya Kapoor)
• Volume 3: The Promise of Empowerment and Democracy in India (ed Deepa Narayan)
• Volume 4: Rising from the Ashes of Conflict (ed Deepa Narayan and Patti Petesch)

2. Voices of the Poor

Website:

• http://go.worldbank.org/H1N8746X10

E-book:

• Volume 1 Can Anyone Hear Us? (by Deepa Narayan , Raj Patel , Kai Schafft , Anne Rademacher , Sara Koch-Schulte )
• Volume 2 Crying Out for Change (by Robert Chambers , Deepa Narayan , Meera Shah , Patt Petesch)
• Volume 3: From Many Lands (ed Deepa Narayan and Patti Petesch)

Publications page:

• Volume 1 (by Deepa Narayan , Raj Patel , Kai Schafft , Anne Rademacher , Sara Koch-Schulte )
• Volume 2 (by Robert Chambers , Deepa Narayan , Meera Shah , Patt Petesch)
• Volume 3 (ed Deepa Narayan and Patti Petesch)

3. Ending Poverty in South Asia: Ideas That Work (ed Deepa Narayan and Elena Glinskaya)

Publications page:

• http://publications.worldbank.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=5975283

4. Measuring Empowerment: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives (ed Deepa Narayan)

Publications page:

• http://publications.worldbank.org/ecommerce/catalog/product?item_id=3839257

5. Empowerment and Poverty Reduction: A Sourcebook (ed Deepa Narayan)

Publications page:

• http://publications.worldbank.org/ecommerce/catalog/product-detail?product_id=1256877

Selected journal articles, book chapters and working papers

i. Measuring Social Capital: An Integrated Questionnaire (with Christiaan Grootaert, Veronica Nyhan Jones and Michael Woolcock) , World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series, 2004.

ii. Local institutions, poverty and household welfare in Bolivia (with Christiaan Grootaert), World Development, 2004.

iii. A Dimensional Approach to Measuring Social Capital: Development and Validation of a Social Capital Inventory (with Michael Cassidy), Current Sociology, 2001.

iv. ‘Consultations with the Poor’ from a Health Perspective, Development, 2001.

v. Social Capital: Evidence and Implications (with Lant Pritchett), in Social capital: A Multifaceted Perspective, 2000.

vi. Social Capital: Implications for Development Theory, Research, and Policy (with Michael Woolcock) , The World Bank Research Observer, 2000.

vii. Bonds and Bridges: Social Capital and Poverty, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series, 1999.

viii. Cents and Sociability: Household Income and Social Capital in Rural Tanzania (with Lant Pritchett), Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1999.

ix. Participation and Social Assessment: Tools and Techniques (with Jennifer Rietbergen-McCracken), World Bank Publications, 1998.

x. Design of Social Funds: Participation, Demand Orientation, and Local Organizational Capacity (with Katrinka Ebbe), World Bank Publications, 1997.

xi. Voices of the poor: Poverty and Social Capital in Tanzania, World Bank ESSD Studies and Monographs, 1997.

xii. The Contribution of People’s Participation: Evidence from 121 Rural Water Supply Projects, World Bank Publications, 1995

xiii. Does Participation Improve Performance? Establishing Causality with Subjective Data, Isham et al. World Bank Economic Review.1995; 9: 175-200

xiv. Participatory Evaluation: Tools For Managing Change In Water And Sanitation, World Bank Publications, 1993.