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Narayan, Deepa, and Patti Petesch, eds. 2010. Moving Out of Poverty: Rising from the Ashes of Conflict. New York: Palgrave Macmillan; Washington, DC: The World Bank.
Paperback. December 2009. 548 pages.
ISBN: 978-0-8213-7631-7. US$40.00 | Most conflict studies focus on the national level, but this volume focuses on the community level. The book explores how communities experience and recover from violent conflict, and the surprising opportunities that can emerge for poor people to move out of poverty in these harsh contexts. Rising from the Ashes of Conflict reveals how poor people’s mobility is shaped by local democracy, people’s associations, aid strategies, and the local economic environment. Over 100 communities across seven conflict-affected countries (Afghanistan, Assam in India, Colombia, Indonesia, Philippines, Cambodia and Sri Lanka) are examined. CHAIR:
Sanjay Pradhan
Vice President, World Bank Institute,
The World Bank CO-CHAIR:
Cyprian F. Fisiy
Director, Social Development Department,
The World Bank PRESENTER:
Deepa Narayan
Director, Moving Out of Poverty,
Global Development Network DISCUSSANTS:
Pauline Baker
President, The Fund for Peace
Ian Bannon
Sector Manager, Post Conflict and
Social Development, Africa Region, The World Bank | |
DOWNLOAD BIOGRAPHIES Deepa Narayan is the project director of the 15-country World Bank study called Moving Out of Poverty: Understanding Freedom, Democracy, and Growth from the Bottom Up. From 2002 through 2008, she served as Senior Adviser in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) network of the World Bank, first in the Poverty Reduction Group and subsequently in the vice president’s office within PREM. Her interests include participatory development, community driven development, and post-conflict recovery. In addition to the four-volume Moving Out of Poverty series, her recent publications include Ending Poverty in South Asia: Ideas that Work (with E. Glinskaya, World Bank, 2007); Measuring Empowerment: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives (World Bank, 2005); and the three-volume Voices of the Poor series (Oxford University Press, 2000-02). Currently, she is affiliated with the Global Development Network. Sanjay Pradhan is the Vice President of the World Bank Institute. Prior to assuming that office in October 2008, Mr. Pradhan was the Director, Public Sector Governance for the World Bank. In that position, he was responsible for providing the strategic directions for the World Bank’s global work across all member countries on improving public sector governance and combating corruption. Previously, Mr. Pradhan held several positions within the Bank including the Sector Manager, Public Sector and Poverty Reduction for the South Asia region. He was also responsible for managing the Bank’s unit supporting governance and public sector reform in 26 countries across Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Mr. Pradhan was a Principal Author of the World Development Report 1997, The State in a Changing World, and has authored numerous publications, including articles, books and policy papers. Cyprian Fisiy is the Director, Social Development Department of the World Bank’s Sustainable Development Network (SDN). The Social Development Department offers advisory and operational support, research and innovative thinking in diverse areas at policy, program and project levels. The Department provides guidance on social development considerations in both the World Bank’s lending and non-lending programs; and supply technical support to ensure social safeguard compliance of World Bank-financed operations. Mr. Fisiy joined the World Bank in 1994 as a Social Scientist in the Africa Environment Sustainable Development Department (AFTES) and has since held various positions, including that of Lead Social Scientist Africa Poverty Reduction and Social Development, and Sector Manager in the East Asia and Pacific Sustainable Development Department (EASSO). Pauline H. Baker is President of The Fund for Peace, in Washington, D.C., which works to prevent war and alleviate the conditions which cause war. One of its flagship products is the internationally recognized Failed States Index, published annually since 2005 in Foreign Policy magazine. A political scientist, Dr. Baker taught at the University of Lagos in Nigeria, The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Women’s Foreign Policy Group, and various other professional organizations, Dr. Baker appears frequently on the media, lectures widely, and has written over 100 publications, including several books and monographs. Ian Bannon is the Sector Manager of the Post Conflict and Social Development Unit in the Africa Region of the World Bank. Prior to his current assignment he was manager of the Conflict Prevention and Reconstruction Unit. He is an economist with an extensive career in the World Bank, having worked in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and South Asia. He has researched and written on gender, education, private investment, child health, natural resources, mental health and the links between conflict and development. His recent publications include Natural Resources and Violent Conflict: Options and Actions (co-edited with Paul Collier, World Bank 2003), Gender, Conflict, and Development (co-written with Tsjeard Bouta and Georg Frerks, World Bank 2005), and The Other Half of Gender: Men’s Issues in Development (co-edited with Maria C. Correia, World Bank 2006). For further information, please contact Benjamin Petrini.
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