Reducing Global Poverty Book

Foreword

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

PART ONE: Lessons from Research

2. Intergenerational Asset Accumulation and Poverty Reduction in Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1978

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