Deepa Narayan (Deepa Narayan-Parker) is a social scientist who authored and co-authored more than 15 books including ''Chup: Breaking The Silence About India's Women''. She is also an independent advisor for poverty, development and poverty and has experience working for the
World Bank
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,
United Nations
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and various NGOs. She has been listed as one of the top 100 Global Thinkers by
Foreign Policy
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magazine in 2011, and part of the top 100 Disruptive Heroes by Hacking Work.
Background
Narayan has a PhD in Psychology and Anthropology.
List of works
This includes titles which have been authored, co-authored or edited by Narayan:
* Chup: Breaking The Silence About India's Women
* Empowerment and Poverty Reduction : A Sourcebook
* Ending Poverty in South Asia: Ideas That Work
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Moving Out of Poverty ''Moving Out of Poverty'' is a project sponsored by the World Bank, as well as a series of four books describing the results of the project, that aim to understand how people rise up the ladder from poverty to prosperity, and how they may fall back ...
: Volume 1. Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Mobility
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Moving Out of Poverty ''Moving Out of Poverty'' is a project sponsored by the World Bank, as well as a series of four books describing the results of the project, that aim to understand how people rise up the ladder from poverty to prosperity, and how they may fall back ...
: Volume 2. Success from the Bottom Up
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Moving Out of Poverty ''Moving Out of Poverty'' is a project sponsored by the World Bank, as well as a series of four books describing the results of the project, that aim to understand how people rise up the ladder from poverty to prosperity, and how they may fall back ...
: Volume 3. The Promise of Empowerment and Democracy in India
* Moving Out of Poverty : Volume 4. Rising from the Ashes of Conflict
* Measuring Empowerment: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives
See also
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Moving Out of Poverty ''Moving Out of Poverty'' is a project sponsored by the World Bank, as well as a series of four books describing the results of the project, that aim to understand how people rise up the ladder from poverty to prosperity, and how they may fall back ...
References
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)