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Consulting the poor in Thailand: enlightenment or delusion?

Centre for South-East Asian Studies, University of Hull, UK, M.J.Parnwell{at}hull.ac.uk

This paper aims to set the World Bank’s recent ‘Consultations with the Poor’ (CWP) exercise within the context of the broadening of definitions of poverty and ill-being and the current predilection for participatory research. The CWP exercise was intended to provide a nuanced understanding of poverty, and is supposed to reflect a fresh approach by the World Bank and other international agencies to the identification and rectification of the problems of the South, and the targeting of the poor. Using the consultations with the poor report for Thailand, the paper seeks to sift rhetoric from reality in examining the extent to which the exercise represents a serious departure from previous practice for the World Bank.

Key Words: consultation • participation • poverty • Thailand • Voices of the Poor • World Bank

Progress in Development Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2, 99-112 (2003)
DOI: 10.1191/1464993403ps055ra


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