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Title: Crying Out for Change: Voices of the Poor by Deepa Narayan, Robert Chambers, Meera K. Shah, Patti Petesch ISBN: 0-19-521602-4 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.00

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Summary: Voices of the poor. Crying out for change.
Comment: This book is the second in a trilogy of books on the issue of poverty and human development undertaken by the World Bank. It is estimated that there are 2.8 billion poor people around the world and this book will tell you stories about 20,000 of them from 23 countries in Africa and the Middle East (like Egypt and Zambia), Eastern Europe and Central Asia (like Bosnia and Uzbekistan), Latin America (like Argentina and Jamaica) and South and East Asia (like Bangladesh and Vietnam).
The idea began in 1998, planning during 1998 and field studies in 1999 with final reports targeted for the 2000 World Development Report. A very impressive and quick research study that in this book focus on well-being and ill-being, problems and priorities, role of institutions and the role of gender relations. For each of the 23 countries a national research team selected 8-15 communities to be representative of the target population of poor people with field interviews and studies performed in a short time span, sometimes under very stressful and sometimes dangerous situations.
The authors of this book then had to go through about 10,000 pages of field notes and national reports from 23 countries and make a useful and readable book out of it. They have really done a good and impressive job out of it. The pages are the stories of many experts on poverty, not from academics or universities, but from the mouth of the poor person him-or herself and there is a lot to learn. Seven themes for change emerge:
·From material poverty to adequate assets and livelihoods
·From isolation and poor infrastructure to access and services
·From illness and incapability to health, information and education
·From unequal and troubled gender relations to equity and harmony
·From fear and lack of protection to peace and security
·From exclusion and impotence to inclusion, organization and empowerment
·From corruption and abuse to honesty and fair treatment
A powerful statement for change that we hope the World Bank will be instrumental in fullfilling, so that the dream of a world free of poverty can someday soon come true.

Professor Joav Merrick, MD
Medical director, Division for Mental Retardation, Box 1260, IL-91012 Jerusalem, Israel. E-mail: [email protected]

Geula Merrick, CDA, BA(Psych)
Child development specialist

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