"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.

목차FOREWORD VII LAEL BRAINARD AND PABLO FARIAS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IX 1 INTRODUCTION 1 CAROLINE MOSER PART ONE: LESSONS FROM RESEARCH 2 INTERGENERATIONAL ASSET ACCUMULATION AND POVERTY REDUCTION IN GUAYAQUIL, ECUADOR, 1978-2004 15 CAROLINE MOSER AND ANDREW FELTON 3 LEARNING FROM ASSET-BASED APPROACHES TO POVERTY 51 MICHAEL R. CARTER 4 THE STAGES-OF-PROGRESS METHODOLOGY AND RESULTS FROM FIVE COUNTRIES 62 ANIRUDH KRISHNA PART TWO: ASSET POLICY?OCIAL PROTECTION OR ASSET ACCUMULATION POLICY? 5 ASSET ACCUMULATION POLICY AND POVERTY REDUCTION 83 CAROLINE MOSER 6 ADDRESSING VULNERABILITY THROUGH ASSET BUILDING AND SOCIAL PROTECTION 104 SARAH COOK 7 SOCIAL PROTECTION AND ASSET ACCUMULATION BY THE MIDDLE CLASS AND THE POOR IN LATIN AMERICA 122 ANDR? SOLIMANO PART THREE: ASSET ACCUMULATION AND CONSOLIDATION IN PRACTICE 8 BUILDING NATURAL RESOURCE?ASED ASSETS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA: WORKABLE SCENARIOS 137 PAULA NIMPUNO-PARENTE 9 PROTECTING LAND RIGHTS IN POST-TSUNAMI AND POSTCONFLICT ACEH, INDONESIA 149 LILIANNE FAN 10 HURRICANE KATRINA: IMPACT ON ASSETS AND ASSET-BUILDING APPROACHES TO POVERTY REDUCTION 167 AMY LIU 11 GANGS, VIOLENCE, AND ASSET BUILDING 179 DENNIS RODGERS 12 BEYOND MICROFINANCE 196 VIJAY MAHAJAN 13 USING MICROINSURANCE AND FINANCIAL EDUCATION TO PROTECT AND ACCUMULATE ASSETS 208 MONIQUE COHEN AND PAMELA YOUNG 14 MIGRANT FOREIGN SAVINGS AND ASSET ACCUMULATION 225 MANUEL OROZCO 15 TRANSNATIONAL COMMUNITIES OF THE UNITED STATES AND LATIN AMERICA 239 HECTOR CORDERO-GUZM? AND VICTORIA QUIROZ-BECERRA 16 GENDER AND TRANSNATIONAL ASSET ACCUMULATION IN EL SALVADOR 255 SARAH GAMMAGE 17 CLAIMING RIGHTS: CITIZENSHIP AND THE POLITICS OF ASSET DISTRIBUTION 273 CLARE FERGUSON, CAROLINE MOSER, AND ANDY NORTON CONTRIBUTORS 289 INDEX 291