TY - BOOK AU - Moser,Caroline O.N. AU - Dani,Anis A. TI - Assets, livelihoods, and social policy T2 - New frontiers of social policy SN - 9780821369951 U1 - 332.6091724 23 PY - 2008/// CY - Washington, DC PB - World Bank KW - Saving and investment KW - Developing countries KW - Case studies KW - Structural adjustment (Economic policy) KW - Social policy N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 UR - http://elibrary.worldbank.org/doi/book/10.1596/978-0-8213-6995-1 ER -