Assets, livelihoods, and social policy - Moser, Caroline O. N.; Dani, Anis A. (Anis Ahmad) (Washington, DC : World Bank, 2008)
The Context -- Asset-Based Social Policy and Public Action in a Polycentric World / Assets and Livelihoods: A Framework for Asset-Based Social Policy / Migration as a Livelihood and Asset Accumulation Strategy -- International Migration and Challenges for Social Policy: The Case of Ecuador / Toward the Sustainable Return of West African Transnational Migrants: What Are the Options? / Public Policies to Support Migrant Workers in Pakistan and the Philippines / Transnationalism, Social Reproduction, and Social Policy: International Migration of Care Workers / Housing as an Asset in Informal Settlements -- Building Homes: The Role of Federations of the Urban Poor / Upgrading Thailand's Urban Settlements: A Community-Driven Process of Social Development / The Erosion of Livelihoods and Assets in Weak States -- Bitter Harvest: The Social Costs of State Failure in Rural Kenya / Youth Gangs as Ontological Assets / Asset-Based Livelihoods Strategies and Economic Empowerment -- Forest Rights and Asset-Based Livelihoods: Catalyzing Rural Economies and Forest Conservation through Policy Reform and Collective Action / Microenterprise and Sustainable Livelihoods / Beyond Sectoral Traps: Creating Wealth for the Poor
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Saving and investment -- Developing countries -- Case studies; Structural adjustment (Economic policy) -- Developing countries -- Case studies; Developing countries -- Social policy -- Case studies