Table of Contents:
  • 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.