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Developing Family Development Accounts in Taipei: Policy innovation from income to assets

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Li-Chen Cheng
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In July 2000, the Taipei City Government launched an anti-poverty program, Taipei Family Development Accounts, which drew heavily on Sherraden¿s asset-based welfare theory, and was to provide matched savings accounts for low-income families in the City. This paper presents the ¿income to assets¿ policy shift process and a research summary on the participants to date.

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Paper provided by Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE in its series CASE Papers with number 083.

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Keywords: family development accounts (Taipei); poverty; assets-building;

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D14 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Personal Finance
I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs

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