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Measuring Empowerment: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
Washington :
The World Bank, 2005.
Narayan D.
Eighteen papers, from an international, interdisciplinary workshop on measuring empowerment organized by the World Bank's Poverty Reduction and Economic Management network in 2003, address the challenge of evaluating empowerment and its contribution to development effectiveness. Papers focus on a framework for evaluating how empowerment influences the development process and for analyzing the causal forces on empowerment, with cases from Latin America; women's empowerment as a variable in international development; measuring women's empowerment; an analysis of household and family dynamics; psychological empowerment and subjective well-being; an investigation of the relationship between income mobility and perceptions of subjective well-being related to that mobility, using panel data from Peru and Russia; self-rated power and welfare in Russia; applying Q methodology to empowerment; analytical issues in measuring empowerment at the community and local levels; peace, conflict, and empowerment; measuring empowerment at the community level; mixing qualitative and econometric methods; assessing empowerment at the national level in Eastern Europe and Central Asia; the CIVICUS Civil Society Index; empowerment as a positive-sum game; democracy, good governance, and empowerment; and measuring democratic governance. Contributors include economists, anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, demographers, and political scientists. Narayan is Senior Adviser in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network of the World Bank. Index.
Chapters
Lokshin M., Ravallion M., , in: Measuring Empowerment: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives.: Washington: The World Bank, 2005.
This chapter examine how individual perception of power compare with soth subjectivae and objective indicators of individual economic welfare. We also examine how much agreement there is between subjective power and welfare, and consider the influence of a variety of factors or covariates on both sets of perceptions. ...
Added: November 11, 2012
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English
Лыткина Т. С., Smirnov A., Мир России: Социология, этнология 2019 Т. 28 № 3 С. 27–47
In this article, based on official statistics 2000–2017, we argue that neoliberal policies have neglected the Russian North: its people, its enterprises and its territories have been expelled from core social and economic processes. We develop the concept of “expulsion” to argue that organized institutional exclusion is the result of mischaracterizing Northern welfare, intensifying the ...
Added: March 19, 2026
Grigoryev L. M., Buryak E., Golyashev A., Вопросы экономики 2014 Т. 2014 № 9 С. 30–52
Социально-экономический кризис на Украине длится уже давно, что привело к открытому социально-политическому конфликту. Цели постсоветской трансформации не получили одобрения населения Украины, у граждан постоянно возникало чувство разочарования, пропадали доверие к власти и вера в будущее страны. Роль денежных переводов трудовых мигрантов нередко занижают, хотя личное потребление и стабильность в стране во многом связаны именно с ...
Added: March 5, 2026
Metelkova E., Вестник практической психологии образования 2024 Т. 21 № 1 С. 34–49
In the article, psychological assistance in the higher education system is analyzed in the context of its formation and development as a social institution — taking into account various scientific approaches to the definition of the concept of “Social institution”, including within the framework of the economic concept of growing social institutions and directed institutional ...
Added: November 21, 2025
Fu L., Tomsk State University Journal of Philosophy, Sociology and Political Science 2025 No. 86 P. 116–127
China has shifted from the one-child policy to the two- and three-child policies to cope with the low fertility rate and the aging of the population, but the fertility rate continues to be declining. The aim of this research is to answer the question: What paradoxes do Chinese women face under these pro-natalist policies? Through ...
Added: November 18, 2025
Slobodenyuk E., Belopashentseva P., Вестник Института социологии 2025 Т. 16 № 4 С. 105–130
The article analyses the immediate periphery of the poor in Russia – Russians with incomes 1 to 1.5 subsistence levels. The article raises three questions: 1) what is the size and characteristics of this group, 2) how has it changed over the past 11 years (and whether the group has retained the character of an ...
Added: October 28, 2025
Slobodenyuk E., В кн.: Российское общество и вызовы времени. Книга восьмая.: М.: Весь мир, 2025. Гл. 10 С. 200–225.
This chapter is devoted to two low-income groups of Russian society—the poor and the low-income. It examines the lives of these people and how their subjective perceptions of life changed from 2013 to 2024. The chapter analyzes not only the poor (with incomes below the subsistence level), who have been the focus of increased government ...
Added: October 28, 2025
Gorshkov M., Tikhonova N. E., Андреев А. Л. et al., М.: Весь мир, 2025.
Based on the results of many years of sociological monitoring (2014–2024), the book provides an interdisciplinary and multifaceted analysis of the dynamics of Russian society's development in the context of external and internal
threats and challenges. It examines the peculiarities of Russians' perception of the situation in the world, their country, and their places of residence, as well as ...
Added: October 28, 2025
Kurniady D. A., Komariah A., Suryana A. et al., Emerging Science Journal 2022 Vol. 6 P. 264–279
In the era of digitalization of education and economy and the development of artificial intelligence, adolescents appear highly competitive compared with other generations in understanding digital technologies, acquiring expertise, and mastering modern means of communication, which normally causes intergenerational conflicts and the loss of an adult’s personal and functional authority. The aim of this research ...
Added: September 29, 2025
Petrovskaya N., Вестник Университета (Государственный университет управления) 2023 № 12 С. 248–259
The article explores the problem of social inequality in modern American society. The author draws attention to various aspects of this phenomenon, including economic inequality in terms of income, wealth, access to education and health care, age, racial-ethnic and gender aspects. In the USA the social in-equality level is one of the highest in the ...
Added: June 23, 2025
Mironova A. A., Журнал исследований социальной политики 2025 Т. 23 № 1 С. 79–98
Reducing poverty is one of the most important national tasks in modern Russia. One of the key factors that determine the risk of poverty in Russia is having minor children. Households with children under the age of 18 make up the majority of those living in poverty in Russia. This study examines the characteristics of ...
Added: June 9, 2025
Vishnevskaya N., Zudina A. A., Вопросы государственного и муниципального управления 2025 № 2 С. 115–136
Poverty continues to be one of the pressing social problems of the modern world, and Russia in this case is no exception. The most common cause of poverty is a shortage of income, however, employment and wages are far from always guaranteeing a family's exit from poverty. The purpose of this paper is to systematize ...
Added: May 24, 2025
Grigoryev L. M., Вестник Московского университета. Серия 6: Экономика 2024 Т. 59 № 6 С. 125–160
In the world of different tribes, languages and slightly cultivated landscapes, empires through crude violence extended rent concentration scale, with the focus on infrastructure (roads, dumbs, canals), fortifications, cult centers and palaces. Investment concentration of a leading nation was achieved through robbery of other nations or through levying taxes on the periphery of the empire. ...
Added: May 16, 2025
Marey M., Философия. Журнал Высшей школы экономики 2025 Т. 9 № 1 С. 121–142
The article is a study of the ethical and political motives behind the behavioral strategies of the main female characters in the novel “Fire and Blood” and its HBO adaptation “House of the Dragon”. Special attention is given to how female characters develop their own identity formation strategies, distinct from those expected of them based ...
Added: May 16, 2025
Vapnyarskaya O., Христофорова И. В., Панасенко С. В., Стандарты и качество 2025 № 4 С. 80–84
The article presents the expert opinion on core trends and prospects for developing creative industries market in Russia. The possibility and necessity of applying standardization to ensure the creative product quality are analyzed. The fundamental legal documents regulating the activities of enterprises and organizations in this sphere are listed. ...
Added: April 28, 2025
Pishnyak A., Khalina N., Nazarbaeva E., Technological Forecasting and Social Change 2025 Vol. 216 Article 124153
Digital exclusion has become a new form of poverty creating a gap between different groups of the population. There is no consensus about the proper definition of the phenomenon, however, the core aspects of digital exclusion include the absence of digital devices, poor internet access, lack of digital skills, and problems with access to digital ...
Added: April 16, 2025
Kanaev E., Fedorovskiy A. N., Kupriyanov A. V. et al., , in: Russia and the World: 2024. Economy and Foreign Policy. Annual Forecast.: IMEMO RAN, 2024. P. 105–111.
The chapter presents most likely trends of development of Pacific Asia and South Asia in 2024. ...
Added: December 29, 2024
Макаренко В. В., Gordeeva I. V., Kanaev E. et al., М.: ООО «Адвансед солюшнз», 2024.
The paper collection “Civilizations of the East: A View from the 21st Century” embraces papers presented at the international scientific conference of the same name, held by the School of Oriental Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University, on October 21-22, 2022 and coincided with the 30th anniversary of the HSE University ...
Added: December 29, 2024
Nazarbaeva E., Khalina N., Pishnyak A., Социологические исследования 2024 № 11 С. 48–58
The article is devoted to the analyses of persistent poverty in comparison with transitory one. A huge number of studies is already done in this area, however, applying primarily quantitative methodology. The objective of our study is to explore the persistent poverty using qualitative methods. As the literature review demonstrates that families with children are ...
Added: December 28, 2024
Khisyamov R., Балахнин Г. А., Жеребятьев И. А., Образование. Наука. Научные кадры 2024 № 4 С. 247–253
The article is devoted to the problem of the influence of fitness bloggers on the formation of standards of beauty and health among students is an urgent task. In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the popularity of social networks and fitness influencers, which actively form ideas about beauty and a healthy ...
Added: December 23, 2024
Moiseev D., Артеев С. П., Сигачев М. И., Тетради по консерватизму 2024 № 3 С. 107–118
In the article the authors examine the archeofuturistic concept of the French philosopher Guillaume Faye. Under the development models crisis the concept may become the key to confl ict resolution and formation of alternative grounds for sustainable dialog between opposing sides, as well as building adaptive mechanisms for societies around the world. Archeofuturism means not ...
Added: December 6, 2024