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Volume 17, Number 1

• Editorial
  • Editorial 17(1)
    Eade, Deborah
• Articles
  • Meaning versus measurement: why do 'economic' indicators of poverty still predominate?
    Sumner, Andrew
  • Gender justice: the World Bank’s new approach to the poor?
    Schech, Susanne; Vas Dev, Sanjugta
  • Researching urban poverty in sub-Saharan Africa
    Iyenda, Guillaume
  • Participation, education and pluralism: towards a new extension ethic
    Davidson, Andrew P.
  • Strategising prevention: a review of local initiatives to prevent female sex trafficking
    Samarasinghe, Vidyamali; Burton, Barbara
  • The human organisation: challenges in NGOs and development programmes
    Padaki, Vijay
  • NGOs and the dynamics of the Egyptian labour market
    Abdelrahman, Maha
• Viewpoint
  • Development versus enjoyment of life: a post-development critique of the developmentalist worldview
    Cavalcanti, Joabe G.
  • Gender equality – whose agenda? Observations from Cameroon
    Orock, Rogers Tabe Egbe
  • Generosity undermined: the Cotonou Agreement and the African Growth and Opportunity Act
    Kebonang, Zein
• Project Notes
  • Evaluating HIV/AIDS education programmes in Ugandan secondary schools
    Jacob, W. james; Mosman, Stacey S.; Steven J.; Morisky, Donald E.; Nsubuga, Yusuf K.
• Practical Notes
  • Capacity building through secondment of staff: a possible model in emergencies?
    Ntata, Pierson R. T.
  • ‘Strong nets catch fish’: promoting pro-poor partnerships in Bangladesh
    Matsaert, Harriet; Ahmed, Zahir; Salam, Shah Abdus
  • Indigenous floating cultivation: a sustainable agricultural practice in the wetlands of Bangladesh
    Islam, Tawhidul; Atkins, Peter
• Research Roundup
  • Adult learning and literacy learning for livelihoods: some international perspectives
    Rogers, Alan; Hunter, Judy; Uddin, Md Aftab
  • Ni Vanuatu women graduates: what happens when they go home?
    Strachan, Jane; Samuel, Janet; Takaro, Minnie
• Book Reviews

Researching urban poverty in sub-Saharan Africa

Iyenda, Guillaume

Poverty and the way in which it is researched are major preoccupations for many social scientists. This article presents different ways of researching urban poverty in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), focusing on qualitative methods and the different ways in which these can be used to collect data. Examples are drawn from field research carried out in urban areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaïre) to illustrate the ways that different research methods and techniques are used in the field and how a researcher might organise data collection.

Keywords: Methods; Social sector; Sub-Saharan Africa

   

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