Membership based organizations of the poor / edited by Martha Chen ... [et al.].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Membership based organizations of the poor : concepts, experience and policy / Martha Chen, Renana Jhabvala, Ravi Kanbur, Carol Richards -- Organizations of the poor : conditions for success / E. Crowley, S. Baas, P. Termine, J. Rouse, P. Pozarny, and G. Dionne -- The influence of organizational and membership structure on the survival of poor people's social movement organizations / Edward Walker, John McCarthy -- Working class struggles, labor elites and closed shops : the lessons from India's trade unions and experiences of organization / Arjan de Hann, Samita Sen -- China as a world factory : new practices and struggles of women migrant workers / Pun Ngai -- Waste picker cooperatives in developing countries / Martin Medina -- Cooperatives and the emancipation of the marginalized : case studies from two cities of India / Sharit Bhowmik -- Literacy and internal control of community finance institutions in Cambodia / Brett Matthews -- Membership based indigenous insurance associations in Ethiopia and Tanzania / Joachim De Weerdt, Stefan Dercon, Tessa Bold, Alula Pankhurst -- SHG-based microfinance programmes : can they remove poverty? / Anand Mohan Tiwari, Sarojini Ganju Thakur -- Community level user groups : do they perform as expected? / Ruth Alsop -- Slack/slum dwellers international : one experience of the contribution of membership based organizations to pro-poor urban development / Celine D'Cruz, Diana Mitlin -- Membership based organizations of the poor : the South African tradition / Jan Theron -- Informal governance and organizational success : the effects of noncompliance among Lima's street vending organizations / Sally Roever -- Membership based organizations as a reflection of power structures in rural "community" : experiences and observations from Sindh Province, Pakistan / Themrise Khan -- Doing things differently? : the everyday politics of membership based organizations / Joe Devine -- Voice lessons : local government organizations, social organization, and the quality of local governance / Vivi Alatas, Lant Pritchett, Anna Wetterberg -- Community driven development and the Northeast Brazil Rural Poverty Reduction Program / Edward Bresnyan, Maria Alejandro Bouquet, Francesca Russo.

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