Developing family development accounts in Taipei: policy innovation from income to assets

In July 2000, the Taipei City Government launched an anti-poverty program, Taipei Family Development Accounts, which drew heavily on Sherraden¿s asset-based welfare theory, and was to provide matched savings accounts for low-income families in the City. This paper presents the ¿income to assets¿ policy shift process and a research summary on the participants to date.

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Year of publication:	2004-03
Authors:	Cheng, Li-Chen
Institutions:	London School of Economics (LSE)
Subject:	family development accounts (Taipei) \| poverty \| assets-building

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	LSE Research Online Documents on Economics.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	The text is part of a series CASEpaper, CASE/83 17 pages
Classification:	I38 - Government Policy; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs ; D14 - Personal Finance
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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