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1 online resource (xxii, 337 pages) : illustrations |
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New frontiers of social policy |
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New frontiers of social policy.
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 discusse 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 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Saving and investment -- Developing countries -- Case studies
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Structural adjustment (Economic policy) -- Developing countries -- Case studies
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Investments & Securities -- General.
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Saving and investment
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Social policy
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Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
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Developing countries -- Social policy -- Case studies
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Developing countries
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Case studies
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Case studies.
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Études de cas.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Moser, Caroline O. N.
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Dani, Anis A. (Anis Ahmad)
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| ISBN |
1281787353 |
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9781281787354 |
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9786611787356 |
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6611787356 |
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