In July 2000, the Taipei City Government launched an anti-poverty program,Taipei Family Development Accounts, which … drew heavily on Sherraden’sasset-based welfare theory, and was to provide matched savings accounts forlow-income families … in the City. This paper presents the “income to assets”policy shift process and a research summary on the participants to …

This article examines the role of family and the state in relation to theliving standards of the elderly in East Asia … theelderly in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. It argues that public policy inthe region assumes the family as primarily … responsible for elderlypeople’s living standards. Secondly, this article analyses private andpublic income transfers to elderly …

Helen Bowman reports on interviews with 100 families in two low-income cityneighbourhoods, one in Sheffield and one in …

. CASE’s qualitative, longitudinalstudy in low income areas seeks to understand area change from theperspective of families …

council estate four miles from the centre of Leeds. It is predominantly councilrented, housing low-income, mainly white …

,started in April 2003.• In an initial interview in March 2003details of income and circumstanceswere collected. Each family … nominateda main respondent, who was trainedin completing income diaries (eachcovering two weeks). The respondentswere then … telephoned fortnightlythroughout the 2003-04 financial yearto collect details of income in each ofthe previous two weeks …

four low-income areas in England. Through successiverounds of interviews we are trying to understand how area conditions … parallel study is tracking 12 low-income areas across Englandand Wales from the 1991 Census to 2006.[...] …