Membership based organizations of the poor

Includes bibliographical references.

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 / Eve Crowley, Stephan Baas, Paola Termine, John Rouse, Pamela Pozarny, and Geneviève Dionne -- The influence of organizational structure and membership composition and resources on the survival of poor people's social movement organizations / Edward T. Walker, John D. McCarthy -- Working class struggles, labor elites, and closed shops : the lessons from India's trade unions and experiences of organisation / 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 -- Co-operatives and the emancipation of the marginalized : case studies from two cities of India / Sharit K. 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 organisations to pro-poor urban development / Celine D'Cruz, Diana Mitlin -- Membership based organisations 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 organisations / Joseph 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 W. Bresnyan, Jr., Maria Alejandro Bouquet, Francesca Russo.