Asset Based Approaches To Poverty Reduction In A Globalized Context
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Asset Based Approaches To Poverty Reduction In A Globalized Context
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Author : Caroline O. N. Moser
language : en
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Release Date : 2006-01-01
Asset Based Approaches To Poverty Reduction In A Globalized Context written by Caroline O. N. Moser and has been published by Brookings Institution Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with Capital categories.
"This working paper provides a brief introduction to asset-based approaches to poverty reduction in a globalized context. This is a new, but critically important, research and policy agenda. As is appropriate for a working paper, it presents results in preliminary form to generate discussion and critical comment. The paper draws on a number or sources. These include the results of a longitudinal research project on Intergenerational asset accumulation and poverty reduction in Guayaquil 1978-2004, funded by the Ford Foundation, and a number of associated background papers, including a literature review of assets and livelihoods. It also draws on papers presented at the recent Brookings Institution/Ford Foundation Workshop on Asset-based approaches to poverty reduction in a globalized context, held in Washington DC on 27-8 June 2006 (see appendix 1 for conference details)." -- p.5
Asset Based Approaches To Poverty Reduction In A Globalized Context
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Author : Caroline Moser
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Asset Based Approaches To Poverty Reduction In A Globalized Context written by Caroline Moser and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
This working paper provides a brief introduction to asset-based approaches to poverty reduction in a globalized context. The aim is to show the added value of asset-based approaches, in terms of both better understanding poverty and developing more appropriate long-term poverty reduction solutions. The paper draws on a number of sources, including: a longitudinal research project on Intergenerational asset accumulation and poverty reduction in Guayaquil 1978-2004; a number of associated background papers; and contributions to the recent Brookings Institution/Ford Foundation Workshop on Asset-based approaches to poverty reduction in a globalized context held in Washington DC on 27-28 June 2006. The paper starts by outlining an asset accumulation framework, distinguishing between an asset index conceptual framework, as an analytical research tool, and asset accumulation policy, as an associated operational approach. It then elaborates on this framework through a number of basic questions: What is an asset? This provides a definition of an asset and description of the five most widely known: human, physical, social, financial and natural capital assets. What new insights can an understanding of asset accumulation give us about poverty reduction? Drawing on the results of the Guayaquil project, this section summarizes a number of asset accumulation stories, to show how analysis of the assets of the poor adds to our understanding of transitions out of poverty and upward mobility. What is an asset-based approach? This section summarizes the four main asset-based approaches, identifying both analytical and operational approaches, as well as examples of implementation. How does an asset index conceptual framework contribute to the diagnosis of poverty? To illustrate the utility of an asset index, this section shows how different capital assets are accumulated or eroded at different points over a 25-year period in Guayaquil. What is an asset accumulation policy? This section summarizes differences and complementarities between social protection policy and asset accumulation policy. It then describes the different components of policies to accumulate assets, distinguishing between first and second generation policies. How does an asset accumulation approach inform practice in different contexts or sectors? Drawing on workshop papers, this section shows how an asset accumulation framework informs poverty reduction analysis and operational interventions in a range of contexts and sectors. These include: communal assets in urban and rural contexts (housing, human settlements and natural resource management); asset building in post disaster and fragile state contexts; making markets work for the poor (financial assets, international assets and transnational asset accumulation); and assets, rights and citizenship. The paper ends with a brief concluding comment and discussion of priority themes for further work.
Reducing Global Poverty
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Author : Caroline O.N. Moser
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2008-06-01
Reducing Global Poverty written by Caroline O.N. Moser and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-01 with Business & Economics categories.
A daunting challenge to the international community is how to go about lifting the world's huge poor population out of poverty. "Asset-based" approaches to development are aimed specifically at designing and implementing public policies that will increase the capital assets of the poor—i.e., the physical, financial, human, social, and natural resources that can be acquired, developed, improved, and transferred across generations. In this pathbreaking book, Caroline Moser and a group of experts with on-the-ground experience provide a set of case studies of asset-building projects around the globe. The authors use a cutting-edge research framework that moves beyond quick snapshot solutions to the problem of poverty. They highlight the ways in which poor households and communities can move out of poverty through longer-term accumulation of capital assets. Contributors include Michael Carter (University of Wisconsin), Monique Cohen (Microfinance Opportunities), Sarah Cook (Institute of Development Studies, Sussex), Hector Cordero-Guzman (Baruch College, CUNY), Lilianne Fan (Oxfam, UK), Pablo Farias (Ford Foundation, New York), Clare Ferguson (formerly DFID), Andy Felton (FDIC), Sarah Gammage (Rutgers University), Anirudh Krishna (Duke University), Amy Liu (Brookings Institution), Vijay Mahajan (BASIX, India), Paula Nimpuno-Parente (Ford Foundation, South Africa), Manuel Orozco (Inter-American Dialogue),Victoria Quiroz-Becerra (Baruch College, CUNY), Dennis Rodgers (London School of Economics), and Andres Solimano (CEPAL, Santiago, Chile).
Using An Asset Based Approach To Identify Drivers Of Sustainable Rural Growth And Poverty Reduction In Central America
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Author : Paul Siegel
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 2005
Using An Asset Based Approach To Identify Drivers Of Sustainable Rural Growth And Poverty Reduction In Central America written by Paul Siegel and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Assets (Accounting) categories.
"The asset-based approach considers links between households' productive, social, and locational assets; the policy, institutional, and risk context; household behavior as expressed in livelihood strategies; and well-being outcomes. For sustainable poverty reducing growth, it is critical to examine household asset portfolios and understand how assets interact with the context to influence the selection of livelihood strategies, which in turn determine well-being. Policy reforms can change the context and income-generating potential of assets. Investments can add new assets or increase the efficiency of existing household assets, and also improve households' risk management capacity to protect assets. After all is said and done, a household's asset portfolio will determine whether growth and poverty reduction can be achieved and sustained over time. The asset-based framework is amendable to different analytical techniques. Siegel suggests combining quantitative and qualitative spatial and household level analyses (and linked spatial and household level analyses) to deepen understanding of the complex relationships between assets, context, livelihood strategies, and well-being outcomes. This paper--a joint product of the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Vice Presidency and the Rural Development Family, Latin America and the Caribbean Region--is part of a larger effort in the Bank to strengthen analyses and strategies for rural development, and address policy issues and investment priorities"--World Bank web site.
Using An Asset Based Approach To Identify Drivers Of Sustainable Rural Growth And Poverty Reduction In Central America
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Author : Paul B. Siegel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Using An Asset Based Approach To Identify Drivers Of Sustainable Rural Growth And Poverty Reduction In Central America written by Paul B. Siegel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
The asset-based approach considers links between households' productive, social, and locational assets; the policy, institutional, and risk context; household behavior as expressed in livelihood strategies; and well-being outcomes. For sustainable poverty reducing growth, it is critical to examine household asset portfolios and understand how assets interact with the context to influence the selection of livelihood strategies, which in turn determine well-being. Policy reforms can change the context and income-generating potential of assets. Investments can add new assets or increase the efficiency of existing household assets, and also improve households' risk management capacity to protect assets. After all is said and done, a household's asset portfolio will determine whether growth and poverty reduction can be achieved and sustained over time. The asset-based framework is amendable to different analytical techniques. Siegel suggests combining quantitative and qualitative spatial and household level analyses (and linked spatial and household level analyses) to deepen understanding of the complex relationships between assets, context, livelihood strategies, and well-being outcomes.
International Ngos And Poverty Reduction Strategies
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Author : Pamela Sparr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
International Ngos And Poverty Reduction Strategies written by Pamela Sparr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
This scoping study has two principle objectives. It provides a summary of current poverty reduction strategies of US and UK-based international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) with a special emphasis on the underlying frameworks that form the basis of their development interventions. Secondly, the study identifyes the applicability of an asset accumulation framework to prevailing programmatic and advocacy strategies for poverty reduction employed by INGOs. After an initial desk review of background materials, a sample group of 21 INGOs was finalized based on seven selection criteria. These relate both to the substantive focus of each organization as well as to institutional factors, and were developed in order to achieve the greatest diversity possible in the sample. The criteria were: mission focus; stated or known analytical approaches to poverty - termed poverty frameworks in this paper; relationship to the field; length of time in operation; size of revenues; primary funding sources; and organizational structure. A questionnaire was developed for use in the final research phase in which 34 staff from 7 UK-based and 14 U.S.-based INGOs were interviewed. The study assesses five possible determinants of INGO poverty approaches. The first determinant is history - both organizational and the broader historical forces at work in the world. Interviews suggest that history is perhaps a stronger factor in shaping an organization's poverty strategy than mission, which appears to have only a partial connection with strategy. Current development theory seems to have a tenuous and weak impact on the strategic framework. This intellectual determinant expresses itself more effectively indirectly through funders' interests, which had a definite impact on poverty reduction strategy. Not surprisingly, the research found that funding sources were influential, particularly the US government and foundations. Organizational structure, the last determinant investigated, seems to have an unclear and complicated relationship to INGO poverty frameworks and strategies.
International Ngos And Poverty Reduction Strategies
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Author : Pamela Sparr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
International Ngos And Poverty Reduction Strategies written by Pamela Sparr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Economic assistance categories.
This scoping study has two principle objectives. It provides a summary of current poverty reduction strategies of US and UK-based international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) with a special emphasis on the underlying frameworks that form the basis of their development interventions. Secondly, the study identifies the applicability of an asset accumulation framework to prevailing programmatic and advocacy strategies for poverty reduction employed by INGOs. After an initial desk review of background materials, a sample group of 21 INGOs was finalized based on seven selection criteria. These relate both to the substantive focus of each organization as well as to institutional factors, and were developed in order to achieve the greatest diversity possible in the sample. The criteria were: mission focus; stated or known analytical approaches to poverty -- termed poverty frameworks in this paper; relationship to the field; length of time in operation; size of revenues; primary funding sources; and organizational structure. A questionnaire was developed for use in the final research phase in which 34 staff from 7 UK-based and 14 US-based INGOs were interviewed.
Assets Livelihoods And Social Policy
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Author : Anis A. Dani
language : en
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Release Date : 2008-05-14
Assets Livelihoods And Social Policy written by Anis A. Dani and has been published by World Bank Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-14 with Business & Economics categories.
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 assets, and use their asset base to manage risks. 'Assets, Livelihoods, and Social Policy' discusses the diverse strategies adopted by people in different contexts to accumulate assets through migration, housing investments, natural resources management, and informal businesses. An asset-based social policy can strengthen asset accumulation strategies as well as help the poor overcome the constraints of unfavorable institutional environments. To a considerable extent, asset accumulation strategies depend on the agency exercised by people themselves through individual or collective action. At the same time, the status of policies and institutions can enable or hinder these strategies and affect livelihood outcomes. In synthesis, the case studies lead to the differentiation among three different types of policies: - policies that affect outcomes by directly influencing access to assets by the poor such as land, housing, natural resources, or credit. - policies and public investments that change the nature of returns on assets such as investments in rural roads, agricultural inputs, and market development. - policies that transform the value of assets held by the poor by virtue of administrative decisions that increase or reduce value such as re-classification of land from arable or pasture to protected lands, land use regulations affecting resource use, or modification in regulations governing labor rights or migration. The chapters, originally commissioned to re-examine major gaps in knowledge and development practice ten years after the Copenhagen Summit on Social Development, are authored by leading scholars from economics, anthropology, sociology, geography, and development studies. This book is part of a new series, New Frontiers in Social Policy, which examines issues and approaches to extend the boundaries of social policy beyond conventional social services toward policies and institutions that improve equality of opportunity and social justice in developing countries. Other titles in the series include Inclusive States: Social Policy and Structural Inequalities, and Institutional Pathways to Equity: Addressing Inequality Traps.
Globalization And Poverty
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Author : Ann Harrison
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2007-11-01
Globalization And Poverty written by Ann Harrison and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-01 with Business & Economics categories.
Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world’s population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in half. How much of that improvement is because of—or in spite of—globalization? While anti-globalization activists mount loud critiques and the media report breathlessly on globalization’s perils and promises, economists have largely remained silent, in part because of an entrenched institutional divide between those who study poverty and those who study trade and finance. Globalization and Poverty bridges that gap, bringing together experts on both international trade and poverty to provide a detailed view of the effects of globalization on the poor in developing nations, answering such questions as: Do lower import tariffs improve the lives of the poor? Has increased financial integration led to more or less poverty? How have the poor fared during various currency crises? Does food aid hurt or help the poor? Poverty, the contributors show here, has been used as a popular and convenient catchphrase by parties on both sides of the globalization debate to further their respective arguments. Globalization and Poverty provides the more nuanced understanding necessary to move that debate beyond the slogans.
The Community Poverty Scan And Assets Based Approach To Poverty Reduction
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Author : Donald G. Reid
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
The Community Poverty Scan And Assets Based Approach To Poverty Reduction written by Donald G. Reid and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Community development categories.