Reducing global poverty: the case for asset accumulation / Caroline Moser, editor.
Moser, Caroline O. N.
2007
HC59.72.P6 R427 2007
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Title Reducing global poverty: the case for asset accumulation / Caroline Moser, editor.
ISBN 081575857X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780815758570 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication Details Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2007.
Language English
Description x, 305 p. : ill.
Call Number HC59.72.P6 R427 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 339.4/6091724
Summary "Provides a set of case studies of asset-building projects around the globe aimed at designing and implementing public policies that will increase the capital assets of the poor. Highlights the ways in which poor households and communities can move out of poverty through longer-term accumulation of capital assets"--Provided by publisher.
Note This volume grew out of the Brookings Institution-Ford Foundation Workshop on Asset-based Approaches to Poverty Reduction in a Globalized Context, held in Washington, D.C., on June 27-28, 2006, led by Caroline Moser, and co-hosted by the Ford Foundation.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction / Caroline Moser
Intergenerational asset accumulation and poverty reduction in Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1978-2004 / Caroline Moser and Andrew Felton
Learning from asset-based approaches to poverty / Michael R. Carter
The stages-of-progress methodology and results from five countries / Anirudh Krishna
Asset accumulation policy and poverty reduction / Caroline Moser
Addressing vulnerability through asset building and social protection / Sarah Cook
Social protection and asset accumulation by the middle class and the poor in Latin America / Andres Solimano
Building natural resource-based assets in southern Africa : workable scenarios / Paula Nimpuno-Parente
Protecting land rights in post-tsunami and postconflict Aceh, Indonesia / Lilianne Fan
Hurricane Katrina : impact on assets and asset-building approaches to poverty reduction / Amy Liu
Gangs, violence, and asset building / Dennis Rodgers
Beyond microfinance / Vijay Mahajan
Using microinsurance and financial education to protect and accumulate assets / Monique Cohen and Pamela Young
Migrant foreign savings and asset accumulation / Manuel Orozco
Transnational communities of the United States and Latin America / Hector Cordero-Guzman and Victoria Quiroz-Becerra
Gender and transnational asset accumulation in El Salvador / Sarah Gammage
Claiming rights : citizenship and the politics of asset distribution / Clare Ferguson, Caroline Moser, and Andy Norton.

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