Reducing global poverty : the case for asset accumulation / Caroline Moser, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moser, Caroline O. N.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty--Developing countries--Congresses.

Poverty.

Poverty--Government policy--Developing countries--Congresses.

Poor--Developing countries--Finance, Personal--Congresses.

Poor.

Microfinance--Developing countries--Congresses.

Microfinance.

Developing countries--Social policy--Congresses.

Developing countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610856640

9781280856648

1280856645

9780815758587

0815758588

OCLC:

476065986