Assets, livelihoods, and social policy /

Given the lack of adequate universal social welfare for those unable to find jobs in the salaried formal sector, the livelihoods and well-being of most poor people depends heavily on their asset base. This includes their ability to access and accumulate assets, obtain decent returns from these asset...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Moser, Caroline O. N., Dani, Anis A. (Anis Ahmad)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : World Bank, ©2008.
Colección:New frontiers of social policy.
Temas:
Saving and investment > Developing countries > Case studies.
Structural adjustment (Economic policy) > Developing countries > Case studies.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Investments & Securities > General.
Saving and investment
Social policy
Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
Developing countries > Social policy > Case studies.
Developing countries
Computer network resources.
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • CONTENTS; BOX; FIGURES; TABLES; FOREWORD; ABOUT THE EDITORS; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; CHAPTER 1 Asset-Based Social Policy and Public Action in a Polycentric World; CHAPTER 2 Assets and Livelihoods: A Frameworkfor Asset-Based Social Policy; CHAPTER 3 International Migration and Challenges for Social Policy: The Case of Ecuador; CHAPTER 4 Toward the Sustainable Return of West African Transnational Migrants: What Are the Options?; CHAPTER 5 Public Policies to Support Migrant Workers in Pakistan and the Philippines.
  • CHAPTER 6 Transnationalism, Social Reproduction, and Social Policy: International Migration of Care WorkersCHAPTER 7 Building Homes: The Role of Federations of the Urban Poor; CHAPTER 8 Upgrading Thailand's Urban Settlements:A Community-Driven Process of Social Development; CHAPTER 9 Bitter Harvest: The Social Costs of State Failure in Rural Kenya; CHAPTER 10 Youth Gangs as Ontological Assets; CHAPTER 11 Forest Rights and Asset-Based Livelihoods: Catalyzing Rural Econo.

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