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A number of quantitative poverty assessments have been undertaken during the past decade in Cambodia. But quantitative surveys traditionally measure poverty in consumption terms, leaving aside other important factors that impact the poor. It is widely recognized that poverty is multidimensional in nature, involving a host of sociological, historical and cultural factors. The Cambodia PPA was meant to incorporate that multidimensional aspect. What follows is a report that utilizes the strength of quantitative assessments in locating where the poor live, with a more qualitative understanding of why people are poor. The two approaches are designed to be complementary in enhancing a better understanding of poverty. At the heart of the PPA's strength is t

A number of quantitative poverty assessments have been undertaken during the past decade in Cambodia. But quantitative surveys traditionally measure poverty in consumption terms, leaving aside other important factors that impact the poor. It is widely recognized that poverty is multidimensional in nature, involving a host of sociological, historical and cultural factors. The Cambodia PPA was meant to incorporate that multidimensional aspect. What follows is a report that utilizes the strength of quantitative assessments in locating where the poor live, with a more qualitative understanding of why people are poor. The two approaches are designed to be complementary in enhancing a better understanding of poverty. At the heart of the PPA's strength is t

Der Bericht fasst die Ergebnisse des Participatory Poverty Assessment von 1998/99 zusammen, das in 60 Gemeinden Ugandas im Zuge der Vorbereitung der Poverty Reduction Strategy durchgeführt wurde. Ziel war es, der Politik in tieferes Verständnis der Armutssituation und ihrer Ursachen zu verschaffen sowie eine Bilanz vorangegangener Politiken der Armutsbekämpfung zu ziehen. Dass Assessment machte deutlich, dass Armut mehr als niedrige Einkommen bedeutet und mit sozialer Ausgrenzung, schlechter Gesundheit und mangelndem Wissen verknüpft ist. Auch zeigte sich, dass die Ungleichheit unter den Geschlechtern eine wesentliche Armutsursache ist. (DÜI-Sbd)

AbstractIn late 1999, apparently contradictory pictures of what was happening to poverty in Uganda emerged from the Participatory Poverty Assessment (PPA) and the household survey. This article analyses certain conceptual and methodological characteristics of the PPA and the pictures of poverty trends arising from it, with a view to dispelling confusion and to better understanding the relationship between these and the pictures emerging from survey data. It argues that the apparently contradictory visions, when explored carefully, are found to be compatible, and concludes that deeper and less oppositional understandings of the purpose of PPAs vis‐à‐vis surveys for poverty assessment are an important and timely contribution to current research and knowledge about poverty.

In 1995 the Government of Tanzania, the University of Dar es Salaam, and the World Bank conducted a Participatory Poverty Assessment (PPA) involving more than 6,000 people in 87 villages across Tanzania. Specific areas on which data were gathered included such indicators as how the poor view poverty, perceptions of inflation and other trends over time, the effects of liberalization on the rural poor, access to and use of formal and informal credit and savings institutions, the role of social capital in household welfare, and the relationship between poverty and the natural environment. This book presents the findings of the PPA. (DÜI-Hff)