Asset Building for Sustainable Livelihoods
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KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Hernando de Soto
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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Timothy Mahoney: Introduction – Asset Based Development
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Michael Sherraden: Asset-Based Development Approaches in the U.S.
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Pablo Farias and Melvin Oliver: Building Assets to Reduce Poverty and Injustice
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Michael Carter: What Have We Learned from Research? Asset Based Approaches to Poverty Measurement, Dynamics and Policy
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Caroline Moser: Is Asset-Based Development Changing Institutional Approaches to Development?
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Paul Siegel: Using an Asset Base Approach to Identify Drivers of Sustainable Rural Growth and Poverty Reduction in Central America
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Alison Mathie and Gord Cunningham: Operationalizing an Asset-Based Approach at the Community Level
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Rebecca Adamson
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SELECTED ARTICLES

Hernando de Soto:

• The Mystery of Capital (2001)
• The Secret to Nonsuccess (2001)

Michael Sherraden:

• Asset Accumulation in Low Resource Households: Evidence from Individual Development Accounts (2001)
• Assets, Poverty and Children (2002)
• Income, Institutions, and Saving Performance in Individual Development Accounts

Ford Foundation:

• Building Assets to Reduce Poverty and Injustice
• Sustainable Solutions: Building Assets for Empowerment and Sustainable Development

Michael Carter:

• One Kind of Freedom: Poverty Dynamics in Post-Apartheid South Africa (2002)
• Asset Smoothing, Consumption Smoothing and the Reproduction of Inequality Under Risk and Subsistence Constraints (2002)

Caroline Moser:

• Reassessing Urban Poverty Reduction Strategies: The Asset Vulnerability Framework

Paul Siegel:

• An Asset-Based Approach to Social Risk Management: A Conceptual Framework (1998)

Alison Mathie and Gord Cunningham:

• From Clients to Citizens: Asset Based Community Development as a Strategy for Community Driven Development
• Who Is Driving Development? Reflections on the Transformative Potential of Asset-Based Community Development

Rebecca Adamson:

• Asset Building in Native Communities: An Asset Building Framework (2003)
• Land Rich and Dirt Poor: The Story of Indian Assets

Other:

• Asset Building and the Escape from Poverty: A New Welfare Policy Debate (2003)