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Inclusion
in Asset Building: Research and Policy Symposium
September 21-23, 2000
"Much
like the 1855 Paris art exposition became a milestone for the
modern art movement, the St. Louis symposium on Inclusion in
Asset Building had the feel of a pivotal gathering where an
impressive range of leading scholars and practitioners gave
shape to a new field of research and activism that makes "asset
building" central to the reduction of poverty and more equitable
growth. The presentations were enlightening because of
the sweep of history and the range of comparisons they invoked
to make the case that assets matter in any serious development
effort. The St. Louis Asset symposium leaves me hungry
for the many next chapters of this discussion some of which
I hope will focus more on how current and proposed tools for
asset building can reach the large populations most in need
of this new paradigm shift to asset building."
Lisa
Mensah, Deputy Director,
Economic Development, The Ford Foundation
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