Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Poverty Appraisal

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Poverty analysis has been a battleground between qualitative and quantitative approaches. Practitioners of each approach seem to live in a world of their own, with little interaction with each other. But this state of affairs is changing. It is increasingly recognized that policy design for attacking poverty requires an approach that makes best use of the relative strengths of qualitative and quantitative analytical tools, applied to the situation at hand. This volume brings together the world leaders in analysis from both sides of the divide to push the dialogue forward. In brief and pointed expositions they characterise the main strengths and weaknesses of each approach, discuss these with concrete examples, and propose a way ahead for combining the two approaches fruitfully. Their deliberations and conclusions will be of interest not only to analysts but also to those who fund and implement the findings of poverty research.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ravi Kanbur

Ravi Kanbur is the T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs and professor of economics at Cornell University (USA). He has taught previously at Oxford, Cambridge, Essex and Warwick universities (UK) and at Princeton University (USA), and he has served on the staff of the World Bank, including as Chief Economist for Africa.

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Title
Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Poverty Appraisal
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
9788178240534
Length
xii+168p., Figures.; Tables.
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