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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,
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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 : Volume 1. Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Mobility
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Moving Out of Poverty : Volume 2. Success from the Bottom Up
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Moving Out of Poverty : 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
References
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)