Colleagues:
In previous posts Cornelio Hopmann has placed a heavy emphasis on the
need for before-after or target-control group evaluations and analysis
when designing interventions using ICTs. When we are talking about the
rural poor, I am wondering if there are limits to our ability to make
What does poor mean? Hmm, that's a good question Cornelio.
There is no doubt that poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon and I am
not sure if the numerous concepts of poor that are floating around are
clear enough both to the poor and the policy-makers themselves.
Furthermore, the relative
Dear Colleagues,
I suspect that we operate under two quite different concepts of poor,
which in turn gives rise to more confusion.
Under the first concept -as for instance used by UNDP for the Human
Development Index- poor or not so poor is -to put it briefly-
measured in terms of liberty -
