Reducing Global Poverty (Paperback)

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Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Washington DC, 2007

081575857X / 9780815758570

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Paperback. A daunting challenge to the international community is how to go about lifting the world's huge poor population out of poverty. ""Asset-based"" approaches to development are aimed specifically at designing and implementing public policies that will increase the capital assets of the poori.e., the physical, financial, human, social, and natural resources that can be acquired, developed, improved, and transferred across generations. In this pathbreaking book, Caroline Moser and a group of experts with on-the-ground experience provide a set of case studies of asset-building projects around the globe. The authors use a cutting-edge research framework that moves beyond quick snapshot solutions to the problem of poverty. They highlight the ways in which poor households and communities can move out of poverty through longer-term accumulation of capital assets. Contributors include Michael Carter (University of Wisconsin), Monique Cohen (Microfinance Opportunities), Sarah Cook (Institute of Development Studies, Sussex), Hector Cordero-Guzman (Baruch College, CUNY), Lilianne Fan (Oxfam, UK), Pablo Farias (Ford Foundation, New York), Clare Ferguson (formerly DFID), Andy Felton (FDIC), Sarah Gammage (Rutgers University), Anirudh Krishna (Duke University), Amy Liu (Brookings Institution), Vijay Mahajan (BASIX, India), Paula Nimpuno-Parente (Ford Foundation, South Africa), Manuel Orozco (Inter-American Dialogue),Victoria Quiroz-Becerra (Baruch College, CUNY), Dennis Rodgers (London School of Economics), and Andres Solimano (CEPAL, Santiago, Chile). A daunting challenge to the international community is how to go about lifting the world's huge poor population out of poverty. ""Asset-based"" approaches to development are aimed specifically at designing and implementing public policies that will increase the capital assets of the poor i. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Title
Reducing Global Poverty (Paperback)
Author
Caroline O.N. Moser
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Washington DC
Publication year
2007
Condition
new
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
081575857X
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