Contents -- Foreword -- Part I: Exploring Concepts and Applications: Presenter Papers -- 1. Power, Rights, and Poverty Reduction -- 2. Linking Power and Poverty Reduction -- 3. Rights, Power, and Poverty Reduction -- 4. Power Relations and Poverty Reduction -- 5. Empowerment and Institutional Change: Mapping "Virtuous Circles" of State-Society Interaction -- 6. Measuring Empowerment: Country Indicators -- 7. Empowerment at the Local Level: Issues, Responses, Assessments -- Part II: Supplemental Materials -- 8. Measuring Empowerment: An Analytic Framework -- 9. Working Meeting on Power, Rights, and Poverty Reduction: A Summary -- 10. Understanding the Concept of Power -- 11. Literature Review.