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Assets, livelihoods, and social policy

Dani, Anis A, Moser, Caroline

2008,2007

Overview

The papers in this volume discuss the strategies adopted by people to accumulate assets through migration, housing investments, natural resources management, and informal businesses and consider how an asset-based social policy could enable those strategies or help them overcome the constraints of an unfavorable institutional environment.

• Publisher: World Bank,World Bank Publications,The World Bank,Washington, DC : World Bank
• Subject: ACCESS TO SERVICES / ASSET ACCUMULATION / AUTONOMY OF WOMEN / BARRIERS TO ENTRY / BASIC HEALTH CARE / BASIC NEEDS / BENEFITS OF MIGRATION / BIODIVERSITY / BRAIN DRAIN / CAPITAL ASSETS / Case studies / CHILD CARE / CITIZEN / CITIZENS / CITIZENSHIP / CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS / CLIMATE CHANGE / COMMUNITIES OF ORIGIN / COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT / CORRUPTION / COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN / COUNTRY OF ORIGIN / DEVELOPING COUNTRIES / Developing countries -- Social policy -- Case studies / DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE / DEVELOPMENT BANK / DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTIONS / DEVELOPMENT POLICIES / DEVELOPMENT POLICY / DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES / DISADVANTAGED GROUPS / DISSEMINATION / DOMESTIC VIOLENCE / DRUG TRAFFICKING / ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES / ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT / ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT / ECONOMIC GROWTH / ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES / ECONOMIC POLICIES / ECONOMIC POLICY / Employment / EMPOWERMENT OF THE POOR / ENDOWMENTS / Entwicklungsländer / EQUITABLE ACCESS / ERADICATION OF POVERTY / EXCLUSION / EXPATRIATE / EXPATRIATE NATIONALS / FAMILIES / FAMILY MEMBERS / FINANCIAL CAPITAL / FINANCIAL MARKET / FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT / GENDER / GENDER ROLES / GLOBAL COMMISSION / GLOBAL COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION / GLOBAL CONSENSUS / GLOBAL POVERTY / GOOD GOVERNANCE / GOVERNMENT AGENCIES / GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT / Grundbedürfnisse / HEALTH SECTOR / HEALTH WORKERS / HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION / HIV / HOMELESS PEOPLE / HOST COUNTRIES / HOST COUNTRY / HUMAN CAPITAL / HUMAN DEVELOPMENT / HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS / HUMAN RIGHTS / HUMAN SECURITY / HUMAN SETTLEMENT / HUMAN SETTLEMENTS / IDS / IMMIGRANT / INDIVIDUAL HOUSEHOLDS / INEQUALITY / INEQUITIES / INFORMAL ECONOMY / INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY / INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS / INTERNATIONAL BANK / INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION / INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION / INTERNATIONAL TRADE / INTERNATIONALIZATION / JOB CREATION / LABOR MARKET / LABOR MARKETS / LAND TENURE / LARGE NUMBER OF WOMEN / LEGAL STATUS / LITERATE SOCIETY / LIVELIHOOD OPPORTUNITIES / LOCAL COMMUNITIES / LOCAL COMMUNITY / LOCAL GOVERNMENTS / MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS / MARKET ECONOMY / MARKET INFORMATION / MEDICAL CARE / MIGRANT / MIGRANT WORKERS / MIGRANTS / MIGRATION / MIGRATION POLICIES / MIGRATION POLICY / MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS / NATIONAL BOUNDARIES / NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS / NATIONAL LEVEL / NATIONAL LEVELS / NATURAL DISASTERS / NATURAL RESOURCE / NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT / NATURAL RESOURCES / NURSES / OWNERSHIP OF LAND / PEOPLES / PERSONAL SAFETY / POLICY DECISIONS / POLICY FRAMEWORK / POLICY IMPLICATIONS / POLICY MAKERS / POLICY RESEARCH / POLITICAL INSTABILITY / POLITICAL OPPOSITION / POLITICAL RIGHTS / POOR HOUSEHOLDS / POOR PEOPLE / POOR WOMEN / POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT / POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTION / POTENTIAL MIGRANTS / POVERTY REDUCTION / POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES / POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGY / PRIMARY EDUCATION / PROGRESS / PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY / PUBLIC INVESTMENTS / PUBLIC POLICY / PUBLIC SERVICE / PUBLIC SERVICES / PURCHASING POWER / QUALITY ASSURANCE / REGULATORY FRAMEWORKS / REMITTANCE / REMITTANCES / RESEARCH COMMUNITY / RESOURCE ALLOCATION / RETURN MIGRATION / RETURNEE / RETURNEES / RULE OF LAW / RURAL DEVELOPMENT / RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE / RURAL POVERTY / SAFETY NET / SANITATION / Saving and investment / Saving and investment -- Developing countries -- Case studies / SECONDARY EDUCATION / SERVICE PROVIDERS / SEXUAL EXPLOITATION / SKILLED WORKERS / SLUM DWELLERS / SOCIAL AFFAIRS / SOCIAL COHESION / SOCIAL COUNCIL / SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT / SOCIAL DIMENSIONS / SOCIAL IMPACT / SOCIAL INEQUITIES / SOCIAL JUSTICE / SOCIAL MOVEMENTS / SOCIAL NORMS / SOCIAL POLICIES / SOCIAL POLICY / SOCIAL RESEARCH / SOCIAL SECTOR / SOCIAL SERVICE / SOCIAL SERVICES / SOCIAL TENSIONS / SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION / SOCIAL WELFARE / SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS / SOVEREIGNTY / Sozialpolitik / STATE POLICIES / Structural adjustment / Structural adjustment (Economic policy) / Structural adjustment (Economic policy) -- Developing countries -- Case studies / STRUCTURAL INEQUALITIES / SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT / TECHNICAL SKILLS / TERTIARY EDUCATION / TRADE UNION / TRADE UNIONS / TRANSFER OF KNOWLEDGE / UNEQUAL POWER / UNEQUAL POWER RELATIONS / UNION / URBAN AREAS / URBAN CENTERS / URBAN COMMUNITY / URBAN DEVELOPMENT / URBAN POVERTY / URBAN SETTLEMENTS / URBAN SLUMS / URBANIZATION / Vermögen / VULNERABILITY / WORKING CONDITIONS / WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
• ISBN: 0821369954, 9780821369951