03669nam a2200397 a 4500 ebr10176635 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 070223s2007 dcua sb 101 0 eng 2007007720 081575857X (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780815758570 (pbk. : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)568035192 d------ HC59.72.P6 R427 2007eb 339.4/6091724 22 Reducing global poverty [electronic resource] : the case for asset accumulation / Caroline Moser, editor. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2007. x, 305 p. : ill. 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. 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. "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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Poverty Developing countries Congresses. Poverty Government policy Developing countries Congresses. Poor Developing countries Finance, Personal Congresses. Microfinance Developing countries Congresses. Developing countries Social policy Congresses. Electronic books. local Moser, Caroline O. N. ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10176635 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 140029 140029