Foreword
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
PART ONE: Lessons from Research
2. Intergenerational Asset Accumulation and Poverty Reduction in Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1978-2004
3. Learning from Asset-Based Approaches to Poverty
4. The Stages-of-Progress Methodology and Results from Five Countries
PART TWO: Asset Policy--Social Protection or Asset Accumulation Policy?
5. Asset Accumulation Policy and Poverty Reduction
6. Addressing Vulnerability through Asset Building and Social Protection
7. Social Protection and Asset Accumulation by the MIddle Class and the Poor in Latin America
PART THREE: Asset Accumulation and Consolidation in Practice
8. Building Natural Resource-Based Assets in Southern Africa: Workable Scenarios
9. Protecting Land Rights in Post-Tsunami and Postconflict Aceh, Indonesia
10. Hurricane Katrina: Impact on Assets and Asset-Building Approaches to Poverty Reduction
11. Gangs, Violence, and Asset Building
12. Beyond Microfinance
13. Using Microinsurance and Financial Education to Protect and Accumulate Assets
14. Migrant Foreign Savings and Asset Accumulation
15. Transnational Communities of the United States and Latin America
16. Gender and Transnational Asset Accumulation in El Salvador
17. Claiming Rights: Citizenship and the Politics of Asset Distribution
Contributors
Index
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