Our Recent Publications

2008

Child Savings Accounts: A Primer
Zimmerman, J (July 2008). Issue Brief. Washington DC: New America Foudation

Global Savings, Assets and Financial Inclusion: Lessons, Challenges and Directions Zimmerman, J et al. (July 2008) (Report from the 2007 Global Symposium)

Child Savings Accounts: Global Trends in Design and Practice
Meyer, J., Zimmerman, J. & Boshara, R. (July 2008). Washington DC: New America Foundation.

Building Assets from Birth: A Global Comparison of Child Development Account Policies
Loke, V. & Sherraden, M. (2008) (CSD Working Paper 08-03). St. Louis: Washington University, Center for Social Development.

2007

Savings for What?
Microfinance Gateway, May 2007
Interview: Boshara, Ray and Jamie Zimmerman

Asset-Based Policy in Rural China: An Innovation in the Retirement Social Insurance Program
Guo, B., Huang, J., Zou, L., & Sherraden, M. (2007). (CSD Working Paper 07-23). St. Louis: Washington University, Center for Social Development.

Under-utilized Contributions by International Students: Case Study for Education and Research
Chowa, G., Danso, K., & Sherraden, M. (2007). (CSD Working Paper 07-20). St. Louis: Washington University, Center for Social Development.

Increasing Parent Educational Expectations for Children in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Potential Role of Assets
Chowa, G. & Elliott, W. (2007). (CSD Working Paper 07-18). St. Louis: Washington University, Center for Social Development.

Asset Building in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China: In-Depth Interviews with Participants in the Hutubi Pilot Study
Zou, L. (2007). (CSD Working Paper 07-16). St. Louis: Washington University, Center for Social Development.

Dual Incentives and Dual Asset Building: The Hutubi Rural Social Security Loan Program in China
Guo, B., Huang, J., Sherraden, M., & Zou, L. (2007). (CSD Working Paper 07-05). St. Louis: Washington University, Center for Social Development.

2006

Economic Empowerment as a Health Care Intervention among Orphaned Children in Rural Uganda (CSD Working Paper 06-16)
St. Louis: Washington University, Center for Social Development, November 2006.
Authors: Ssewamala, Fred M., W.M. Bannon, Stacey Aliecia, and Leyla Ismayilova

Savings Performance among Rural Households in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Effect of Gender
Social Development Issues, 28(2), 106-116.
Author: Chowa, Gina

Asset Building Policy Promotes Work Incentives for the Poor
South Korea: Hankyoreh Newspaper, 24 November 2006
Interview: Sherraden, Michael

Building Assets from Birth: A Comparison of the Policies and Proposals on Children Savings Accounts in Singapore, the United Kingdom, Canada, Korea, and the United States (CSD Working Paper 06-14)
St. Louis: Washington University, Center for Social Development, September 2006.
Authors: Sherraden, Michael and Vernon Loke

Can California Import a British Plan?
The San Francisco Examiner, 31 July.
Author: Boshara, Ray and Anne Stuhldreher.

"Promoting Life Opportunities for Uganda's Orphaned Child: the Potential of Family-Asset based Strategies." San Juan, Puerto Rico: Peer-reviewed paper presented at the NIMH Annual International Research Conference on the Role of Families in Preventing and Adapting to HIV/AIDS, July 2006.Authors: Ssewamala, Fred and L. Ismayilova

School Attendance of Orphaned Children in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Family Assets
Social Development Issues, 28(2), pp. 84-105
Authors: Ssewamala, F.M. and Jami Curley

Social Development and the Potential of Assets: International Perspectives
A special issue of Social Development Issues, 28(2) (in English)
Authors: Zou, Li and Michael Sherraden

Assets and the poor: A new American welfare policy (Bahasa Indonesian translation) Jakarta: Rajawali PressAuthor: Sherraden, Michael

Assets and the poor: A new American welfare policy (Spanish translation, forthcoming) San Juan, Puerto Rico: Center for a New Economy
Author: Sherraden, Michael

2005

Impact of Asset Ownership on Social Inclusion (CSD Working Paper 05-06)
St. Louis: Washington University, Center for Social Development, July 2005.
Authors: Sherraden, Michael and Margaret Lombe

Increasing Life Chances for Orphaned Children in Africa: Testing an Asset-based Development Strategy (CSD Working Paper 05-01)
St. Louis: Washington University, Center for Social Development, May 2005.
Author: Ssewamala, Fred and Jami Curley

Inclusion in Asset Building: Testimony for Hearing on "Building Assets for Low-Income Families (CSD Perspective 05-24)
Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy, Senate Finance Committee.
St. Louis: Washington University, Center for Social Development, April 2005.
Author: Sherraden, Michael

Children Development Accounts in Africa: A Pilot Study (CSD working paper no. 05-05)
St. Louis: Washington University, Center for Social Development, April 2005.
Author: Ssewamala, Fred

Individual Development Accounts: Policies to Build Savings and Assets for the Poor
Washington: Brookings Institution, March 2005.
Author: Boshara, Ray

"Asset building in the United States and the rest of the world."
China Social Work Research, 3, 85-100. (Also published in Journal of Shandong University Philosophy and Social Sciences, 2005 1, 23-29; and as opening chapter in Asset Building and Social Development, J. Gao & M. Zhan, Eds., Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press, 2005, 1-17; and published in part in China Social Work Research III, Beijing: Social Sciences Academic Press, 2005; all in Chinese).
Author: Sherraden, Michael

"Individual Development Accounts: Lessons from the American Dream Demonstration."
Jiangsu Social Sciences, 2, 201-205 (in Chinese).
Authors: Sherraden, Michael and Li Zou

"Chinese Social Issues and Social Policy"
Social Development Issues (27) (Special Issue, in English)
Authors: Zou, Li, J. Gao, M. Zhan, and L. Cheng, eds.

Assets and the poor: A new American welfare policy (Mandarin translation)
Beijing: Commercial Press
Author: Sherraden, Michael

2003

“For Every Child, a Stake in America”
New York Times, 22 July 2003.
Authors: Boshara, Ray and Michael Sherraden

Community Economic Development: Microenterprise in Comparative Perspective.
Cape Town, South Africa: Paper presented at Stellenbosch University, June 2003.
Authors: Sherraden, Margaret S., Fred Ssewamala, and M. Schreiner.

Microenterprise performance: A comparison of experiences in the United States and Uganda (CSD Working Paper 03-16)
St. Louis: Washington University, Center for Social Development, May 2003
Authors: Ssewamala, Fred, Margaret S. Sherraden, and Cynthia K. Sanders

Developing family development accounts in Taipei: Policy innovation from income to assets (CSD Working Paper 03-09)
St. Louis: Washington University, Center for Social Developmenta
Author: Chen, Li-Chen

"Promoting Socio-economic Justice for Women in sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from Heifer Projects."
Atlanta, GA: Peer reviewed paper presented at the 49th Annual Program Meeting for the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), February 2003.
Author: Ssewamala, Fred

2002

From social welfare state to social investment state [Adapted from presentation at 10 Downing, London].
London: Institute for Public Policy Research. In C. Kober & W. Paxton (Eds.), Asset-based welfare and policy
Author: Sherraden, Michael

2001

Women and development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Problems and prospects for Heifer projects (CSD Working Paper 01-11)
St. Louis: Washington University, Center for Social Development, December 2001
Author: Ssewamala, Fred

2000

“Policy lessons from children’s allowances for children’s savings accounts”
Child Welfare 79(6): 661-687.
Authors: Sherraden, Michael and Jami Curley

1990-1999

The history and status of children's allowances: Policy background for children's savings account (CSD Report)
St. Louis: Washington University, Center for Social Development, 1998
Authors: Curley, Jami and Michael Sherraden

Alternatives to social security: An international inquiry, 17-32
Westport, CN: Auburn House.
Authors: Sherraden, Michael and J. Midgley (eds.)

"Social security based on capital accounts: The Central Provident Fund of Singapore. " (In C. R. Duran (Ed.), Systems of Social Security in the 21st Century [In Spanish])
Mexico City: Foundation of Luis Donaldo Colosio.
Author: Sherraden, Michael

"Social policy based on assets: The impact of Singapore’s Central Provident Fund."
Asian Journal of Political Science 3(2), 112-133.
Authors: Sherraden, Michael, Sudha Nair, S. Vasoo, T.L. Ngiam, and M.S. Sherraden

"A study of the Central Provident Fund of Singapore."
Social Dimension, 1, 28-31 (Singapore).
Author: Sherraden, Michael

Assets and the poor: A new American welfare policy.
Amonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.
Author: Sherraden, Michael