Power, Rights, and Poverty: Concepts and Connections

This book contains a series of short papers focused on enhancing understanding of the relationships between power, rights, and poverty reduction. The book offers both an exploration of the concepts of "rights" and "power" and a discussion of how these concepts may be applied in developmental and poverty-reduction work.

Part I of the book contains a series of papers addressing competing definitions and conceptual issues around power and rights, illustrating these with experiences observing and applying the concepts in practice in different countries.

Part II contains supplemental materials, including a summary of the major theoretical conceptualisations of power, and an overview of the literature on power and rights.

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