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By Michael Sherraden (editor)

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9780199988488 | 1 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, April 15, 2014), cover price $53.00

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9781280912689 | 3 revised edition (Routledge, January 10, 2010), cover price $47.95
9786610912681 | 2 revised edition (Routledge, January 1, 2006), cover price $47.95

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Product Description: Low-income families have scant savings to cushion a job loss or illness, and can find economic mobility impossible without funds to invest in education, homes, or businesses. And though a lack of resources leaves such families vulnerable, income-support programs are often closed to those with a bit of savings or even a car...read more

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9780877667544 | Urban Inst Pr, September 11, 2008, cover price $29.50 | About this edition: Low-income families have scant savings to cushion a job loss or illness, and can find economic mobility impossible without funds to invest in education, homes, or businesses.

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Product Description: Businesses come to life as owners are allowed to speak in their own words in this first in-depth examination of self-employment told from the perspectives of low-income microentrepreneurs. The book systematically analyzes a range of issues, including who chooses to open a micro business, and why; what resources do they bring to their business venture; how well will their venture fare; and what contributes to the growth or decline of their business...read more

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9780791461723 | State Univ of New York Pr, June 1, 2008, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: Businesses come to life as owners are allowed to speak in their own words in this first in-depth examination of self-employment told from the perspectives of low-income microentrepreneurs.

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Product Description: Many policymakers argue that the best poverty policy not only provides cash to the poor for subsistence but also incentives and structures that encourage long-term social and economic improvement. As part of this, they make the case for Individual Development Accounts (IDAs), a new policy proposal designed to help the poor save and to build assets...read more

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9780202308364 | Transaction Pub, April 30, 2007, cover price $75.95 | About this edition: Many policymakers argue that the best poverty policy not only provides cash to the poor for subsistence but also incentives and structures that encourage long-term social and economic improvement.

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9780202308395 | Transaction Pub, December 30, 2006, cover price $40.95 | About this edition: Many policymakers argue that the best poverty policy not only provides cash to the poor for subsistence but also incentives and structures that encourage long-term social and economic improvement.

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Product Description: This work proposes a new approach to welfare: a social policy that goes beyond simple income maintenance to foster individual initiative and self-sufficiency. It argues for an asset-based policy that would create a system of saving incentives through individual development accounts (IDAs) for specific purposes, such as college education, homeownership, self-employment and retirement security...read more

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9781563240669 | M E Sharpe Inc, March 1, 1991, cover price $47.95 | About this edition: This work proposes a new approach to welfare: a social policy that goes beyond simple income maintenance to foster individual initiative and self-sufficiency.

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Product Description: This important and timely book studies the non-military national service programs in nine countries: Canada, China, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Israel, Mexico, Nigeria, the United States, and West Germany. The efforts of five contributing authors and the support of many individuals and organizations all over the world have gone into this volume, providing a valuable reference in comparing national service programs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Donald Eberly (editor) and Michael Sherraden (editor)

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9780313257568 | Praeger Pub Text, September 1, 1990, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: This important and timely book studies the non-military national service programs in nine countries: Canada, China, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Israel, Mexico, Nigeria, the United States, and West Germany.

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