Assets, Livelihoods, and Social Policy

Caroline Moser and Anis A. Dani

No 6542 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: This series "New Frontiers of Social Policy" aims to promote social development through systematic attention to the underlying social context and the social outcomes of development interventions and public policy. This book series has been conceived and produced for the broader development community, rather than for social policy specialists alone. This book is particularly, although not exclusively, relevant to those concerned with the one-third of the world's population that still depends on the informal economy for its livelihood. By making the case for an asset-based social policy, it moves well beyond social welfare palliatives for needy households toward public actions that give people the means and opportunities to accumulate assets and have greater control over their livelihoods. To be successful, an asset-based social policy needs to address several challenges, initial inequality, informality, imbalance in asset building opportunity, and inadequate state effectiveness, endemic in many developing countries.

Keywords: Macroeconomics and Economic Growth-Investment and Investment Climate Health; Nutrition and Population-Population Policies Economic Theory and Research Finance and Financial Sector Development-Access to Finance Public Sector Corruption and Anticorruption Measures Health; Nutrition and Population Public Sector Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8213-6995-1
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