Methods For Social Analysis In Developing Countries

Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Social Impact Assessment—For Richer and for Poorer -- General Approaches -- Social Analysis in AID and the World Bank -- A New Zealand Issues-Oriented Approach to Social Impact Assessment -- The Development Anthropology Approach -- Basic Methods -- Surveys: Avoiding the Common Problems -- Demography of the Project Population -- Informant Interviewing in International Social Impact Assessment -- Special Approaches and Methods -- A Bayesian Perspective on Social Impact Assessment Data Collection -- Rapid Rural Appraisal: Social Science as Investigative Journalism -- Donor Agency Experience with the Monitoring and Evaluation of Development Projects -- Closing the Loops: Workshop Approaches to Evaluating Development Projects -- An Application -- Tropical Deforestation and the Threat to Biodiversity: New Directions in Social Assessment