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assets
in
Half the Sky
(Edited)

That doesn't happen often in red-light districts, any more than farmers kill producing assets such as good milk cows, but from time to time a prostitute becomes so nettlesome that the owners kill her as a warning to the other girls.
Chpt 1

assets = things of financial value
After two excruciating years of watching their daughter suffer, her parents sold their livestock--all of their assets--to try to help Simeesh.
Chpt 6
Angeline was destined to be another farmer or village peddler, another squandered African asset.
Chpt 10

asset = something of value
One early pair of studies found that when women hold assets or gain incomes, family money is more likely to be spent on nutrition, medicine, and housing, and consequently children are healthier.
Chpt 11

assets = things of financial value
Half a world away, in Indonesia, a woman continues to control economic assets that she brought into a marriage.
Chpt 11 *
A study found that if the wife has brought more resources into the marriage--and thus has more spending money afterward--then her children are healthier than those of families of equal wealth where the assets belong to the man.
Chpt 11
But Rwanda is flourishing precisely because it has figured out how to turn people like Claudine into economic assets.
Chpt 12

assets = things of value
Working Assets, a phone company that donates 1 percent of its sales to charity, had chosen Zainab to receive the gift, and it rescued the organization.
Chpt 12

assets = things of cash value
She will become a productive economic asset for Africa, all because of a little push and helping hand from Heifer International.
Chpt 14 *

asset = something of value

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(1) (assets as in: it's one of her best assets)
a positive trait or thing of value
in various senses, including:
- a positive trait -- as in "Her confidence is an asset in the job search."
- something highly valued -- as in "The University is one of the city's greatest assets."
- soldiers or military equipment -- as in "They moved assets into the contested area."
- a spy -- as in "She was the United States' most valuable asset in China."
Assets are often contrasted to their opposite, liabilities.
(2) (assets as in: the company's assets & liabilities)
things of financial value; or a listing of the cash value of things owned

Assets are often considered with their opposite, liabilities (debt and other financial obligations).
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

assets in Half the Sky (Edited)

assets
in
Half the Sky
(Edited)