Reducing global poverty : the case for asset accumulation

Caroline Moser, editor

A daunting challenge to the international community is how to go about lifting the world's huge poor population out of poverty. "Asset-based" approaches to development are aimed specifically at designing and implementing public policies that will increase the capital assets of the poor i.e., the physical, financial, human, social, and natural resources that can be acquired, developed, improved, and transferred across generations. In this pathbreaking book, Caroline Moser and a group of experts with on-the-ground experience provide a set of case studies of asset-building projects around the globe. The authors use a cutting-edge research framework that moves beyond quick snapshot solutions to the problem of poverty. They highlight the ways in which poor households and communities can move out of poverty through longer-term accumulation of capital assets. Contributors include Michael Carter (University of Wisconsin), Monique Cohen (Microfinance Opportunities), Sarah Cook (Institute of Development Studies, Sussex), Hector Cordero-Guzman (Baruch College, CUNY), Lilianne Fan (Oxfam, UK), Pablo Farias (Ford Foundation, New York), Clare Ferguson (formerly DFID), Andy Felton (FDIC), Sarah Gammage (Rutgers University), Anirudh Krishna (Duke University), Amy Liu (Brookings Institution), Vijay Mahajan (BASIX, India), Paula Nimpuno-Parente (Ford Foundation, South Africa), Manuel Orozco (Inter-American Dialogue),Victoria Quiroz-Becerra (Baruch College, CUNY), Dennis Rodgers (London School of Economics), and Andres Solimano (CEPAL, Santiago, Chile).

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Year of publication:	[2007]
Other Persons:	Moser, Caroline O. N. (ed.)
Publisher:	Washington, D.C : Brookings Institution Press
Subject:	Armut \| Poverty \| Armutsbekämpfung \| Poverty reduction \| Welt \| World \| Entwicklungsländer \| Developing countries
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [external.dandelon.com]

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index 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 Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Part One: Lessons from Research; 2. Intergenerational Asset Accumulation and Poverty Reduction in Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1978-2004; 3. Learning from Asset-Based Approaches to Poverty; 4. The Stages-of-Progress Methodology and Results from Five Countries; Part Two: Asset Policy--Social Protection or Asset Accumulation Policy?; 5. Asset Accumulation Policy and Poverty Reduction; 6. Addressing Vulnerability through Asset Building and Social Protection 7. Social Protection and Asset Accumulation by the Middle Class and the Poor in Latin AmericaPart Three: Asset Accumulation and Consolidation in Practice; 8. Building Natural Resource-Based Assets in Southern Africa: Workable Scenarios; 9. Protecting Land Rights in Post-Tsunami and Postconflict Aceh, Indonesia; 10. Hurricane Katrina: Impact on Assets and Asset-Building Approaches to Poverty Reduction; 11. Gangs, Violence, and Asset Building; 12. Beyond Microfinance; 13. Using Microinsurance and Financial Education to Protect and Accumulate Assets 14. Migrant Foreign Savings and Asset Accumulation15. Transnational Communities of the United States and Latin America; 16. Gender and Transnational Asset Accumulation in El Salvador; 17. Claiming Rights: Citizenship and the Politics of Asset Distribution; Contributors; Index
ISBN:	978-0-8157-5858-7 ; 978-0-8157-5857-0 ; 0-8157-5857-X ; 978-0-8157-5857-0
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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