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03623cam a2200397 a 4500 001 3BA084302B0F11DE8F715E08A8D7520A 005 200904170018.0 008 070223s2007 dcua b 101 0 eng 010 $a 2007007720 020 $a 9780815758570 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 081575857X (pbk. : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)85766011 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d BTCTA $d DBI $d C#P $d YDXCP $d LUI $d SILO 050 00 $a HC59.72.P6 $b R427 2007 082 00 $a 339.4/6091724 $2 22 245 0 $a Reducing global poverty : $b the case for asset accumulation / $c Caroline Moser, editor. 260 $a Washington, D.C. : $b Brookings Institution Press, $c c2007. 300 $a x, 305 p. : $b ill. ; $c 23 cm. 500 $a 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. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a "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. 650 0 $a Poverty $z Developing countries $v Congresses. 650 0 $a Poverty $x Government policy $z Developing countries $v Congresses. 650 0 $a Poor $z Developing countries $x Finance, Personal $v Congresses. 650 0 $a Microfinance $z Developing countries. $v Congresses 651 0 $a Developing countries $x Social policy. $v Congresses. 700 1 $a Moser, Caroline O. N. 856 41 $3 Table of contents only $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0711/2007007720.html 939 $a 5791552 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20200924024159.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160823033320.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3BA084302B0F11DE8F715E08A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b LUI 952 $l N5UX522 $d 20090701080000.0Initiate Another SILO Locator Search