Asset Building and the Escape from Poverty : A New Welfare Policy Debate

Asset Building and the Escape from Poverty A New Welfare Policy Debate

Governments in developed countries have long used, directly or indirectly through their tax systems, policies that subsidise or otherwise encourage the population at large to acquire assets such as financial savings, home ownership, retirement funds, education (human capital) or business capital. Th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Autor Corporativo: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Paris : OECD Publishing 2003.
Materias:
Development
Social Issues/Migration/Health
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009705630506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter One. Building the Poor's Assets: The Basic Ideas
  • What is Asset Building?
  • Welfare Thinking and the Asset Builders’ Discontent
  • Market Failure
  • Social Investment: More than Just Another Name for Asset Building
  • Chapter Two. Asset Building around the World
  • Microfinance
  • Asset-Building Developments in OECD Member Countries
  • The United States
  • The United Kingdom
  • Canada
  • Mexico
  • Ireland
  • Individual Learning Accounts (ILAs) in OECD Countries
  • Asset Building outside the OECD Area
  • Singapore
  • Chinese Taipei
  • South Africa
  • The Importance of Evaluation
  • Chapter Three. Key Questions for an International Dialogue on Asset Building
  • Bibliography

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