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.
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.
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Reducing global poverty : the case for asset accumulation. ISBN 9780815758570. Published by Brookings Institution Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
