Poverty, Institutions and Interventions A framework for an institutional analysis of poverty and local anti-poverty interventions. Final version, January 2002 Johan Bastiaensen Tom De Herdt Jos Vaessen Institute for Development Policy and Management University of Antwerp Prinsstraat 23, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium tel. +32-3-220-4186 johan.bastiaensen@ua.ac.be fax. +32-3-220-4420 tom.deherdt@ua.ac.be