Reducing global poverty the case for asset accumulation /

"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 accumulatio...

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Moser, Caroline O. N.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2007.
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Summary:"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.
Item Description: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.
Physical Description:x, 305 p. : ill.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.