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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Asset Building"”.
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Examining Immigrant Experiences in Asset Building: Implications for Asset-Based Policies
… with late but now growing attention on their asset- and wealth-building. Current research on immigrants’ asset building has largely focused on their individual-level characteristics, and not much on opportunities and constraints related to policy arrangements. This dissertation addresses the …
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Community Development for the 21st Century: Asset-building and the Resurgence of Pittsburgh
… both were able to identify and leverage the assets of the community as a part of their revitalization strategy. Led by the efforts of local community organizations, these communities developed innovative redevelopment strategies that ultimately produced meaningful revitalization in both …
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Saving the Poor: A Discourse Analysis of Asset-Building as an Anti-Poverty Strategy
<p>The much-heralded antipoverty strategy of asset-building emphasizes saving and acquiring wealth as a key route out of poverty (as opposed to relying on public assistance). This case study of a financial literacy program in Philadelphia focuses on how asset-building discourse gets enacted on the …
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Saving the Poor: A Discourse Analysis of Asset-Building as an Anti-Poverty Strategy
<p>The much-heralded antipoverty strategy of asset-building emphasizes saving and acquiring wealth as a key route out of poverty (as opposed to relying on public assistance). This case study of a financial literacy program in Philadelphia focuses on how asset-building discourse gets enacted on the …
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Community asset building in rural development : an analysis of military-base redevelopment in rural host communities
This dissertation is about opportunities in rural development. Often we think of development as a function of location. In the pursuit of economic development, analysts and practitioners tend to consider the advantages--economic, geographic, and institutional--of one location over another. Rural …
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From individual development accounts to community asset building : an exploration in bridging people-and place-based strategies
… individuals to save for the purchase of an asset. As one of many national initiatives that encourage homeownership, this thesis explores how community-based organizations use this tool in concert with other community development efforts to not only help individuals purchase homes, but also …
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Assessing the Effectiveness of the Microcredit and Integrated Asset Building as a Social Approach to Poverty Reduction in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
… the effectiveness of microcredit combined asset building as a pro-growth approach to reduce poverty sustainably in Kinshasa. The recent crises of over-indebtedness in several markets and Kinshasa have fueled growing concern that microcredit may be getting borrowers into trouble. However, my …
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That's the Thing with Community: Social Networks and Asset Development
… networks in the lives of participants in an asset building program. Focus groups were conducted with parents whose children hold accounts in a multi-site demonstration project of Children's Savings Accounts. The study's research questions were: 1) How can the social networks of parents' be …
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Building community assets through individual development accounts : growing a strategic network in Lawrence, Massachusetts
… the decision-making process for growing an asset-building program through strategic partnerships with other community-based organizations (CBOs). The impetus for this paper came from Lawrence CommunityWorks, a CBO in Lawrence, Massachusetts that is interested in substantially expanding the …
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An Assessment for our Future: An Investigation of the Presence of External Ecological Assets within Three Counties and One City in Southwest Virginia 6th Grade Youth
… indicates that by increasing the number of assets/protective factors within a child's external ecology it decreases the likelihood of the youth participating in risk behaviors. Information which explicitly focuses on the etiology (external ecology) of youth risk behaviors for Southwest …
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Community Foundations as Community Leaders
… have three distinct operational roles, including asset building, grantmaking, and community leadership. While asset building and grantmaking have methods available to quantify and measure their impact, community leadership has remained an elusive concept for community foundations for many …
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Is South Africa's social protection system addressing the causes or the symptoms of poverty? : the case of the Child Support Grant
… which to appraise anti-poverty measures. 'An Assets-Augmented' Capabilities Framework is proposed with a focus on asset-building as the primary means of poverty reduction. Focusing on the Child Support Grant (CSG), empirical analysis is then applied to examine whether the underlying causes of …
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Developing a Practical Ideal Type Gentrification Effects Mitigation Program: A Study of Austin, Texas
… housing retention, and promoting resident asset building. Methods: Structured interviews were conducted with seven leaders of city government and nonprofit housing agencies in Austin, Texas. Findings: The findings suggest that Austin is currently utilizing nine of the thirteen possible …
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Advancing equitable transit oriented development in Massachusetts : a framework and lessons from four gateway cities
… are burdened by rents high enough to prevent asset building, but too low to encourage development for the cities outside the high-priced Boston market. Bringing transit oriented development into these communities risks exacerbating low income households' tenuous financial and housing …
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Ties That Bind: The Informal Social Networks of Rural African-American Mobile -Home Park Families
… homeownership. While homeownership should be an asset-building choice for lower-income households, mobile homes, especially those on rented land, are poor investments due to depreciating property values, high interest rates and long tenure for mortgage loans. Park families are also stretched thin …
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Asset trajectories and child outcomes: Implications for asset-based policies
… number of countries have proposed or implemented asset-building policies targeting children. Much of the research on assets, however, has focused on the predictors of asset holding, and little is known about asset accumulation trajectories. This is especially so for families with young children. …
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Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Relationship Between Wealth and Health
… how US adults’ wealth components (financial assets, nonfinancial assets, secured debt, and unsecured debt) at age 30 were associated with physical and mental health at ages 30–36, as well as if the associations differed by race/ethnicity. Overall, positive relationships were found between …
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Low-income homeownership for intergenerational mobility - the role of intermediaries in risk mitigation
… households have unconventional trajectories for building wealth through homeownership and make unexpected tradeoffs to hold on to the home asset. Building wealth in the home and cashing out the equity they have built from time to time is key to low-income households’ finance management strategy …
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Financial Asset Accumulation by Poor Adolescents Participating in Child Savings Accounts in Low Resource Communities in Uganda
… examined savings attitudes and financial asset accumulation of poor and vulnerable school-going AIDS-orphaned adolescents involved in a subsidized matched child savings program in Uganda and being cared for by a living parent (adolescents who have lost one parent) or by an adult guardian …
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Impacts of Parental Resources on Child Educational Outcomes: Assets and Mediating Pathways
… is still no consensus on how different types of assets contribute to children's educational outcomes. Also, asset effects on high school dropout are not examined to date, and mediating pathways of social-psychological characteristics are more investigated with educational achievement: e.g. …
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