Membership Based Organizations of the Poor

Martha Chen, Renana Jhabvala, Ravi Kanbur, Carol Richards

• Verlag: Routledge
• Jahr: 2007
• ISBN:
  9781135985684
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Business
• Thema: Business General

This highly topical volume, with contributions from leading experts in the field, explores a variety of questions about membership based organizations of the poor. Analyzing their success and failure and the internal and external factors that play a part, it uses studies from both developed and developing countries.

Put together by a group of prestigious editors, the contributors address a range of questions, including:

• What structures and activities characterize MBOPs?
• What is meant by success and what factors account for success?
• What are the internal (governance structure and leadership) and external (policy environment) factors that account for success?
• Are these factors replicable across countries or even within countries?
• What are the constraints to successful MBOPs expanding, or to new ones being formed?
• What sort of policy environment enables the success of MBOPs and the formation of successful MBOPs?
• What types of institutional reforms are needed to ensure the representation of the poor through their own MBOs?

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This is an insightful work, that will be invaluable for students and researchers studying or working in the areas of international and development economics and development studies.