Ordinary Families, Extraordinary Lives: Assets and Poverty Reduction in Guayaquil, 1978-2004

by Caroline O. N. Moser and Caroline O.N. Moser

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Fifty years after Oscar Lewis's famous depiction of five Mexican families caught in a ""culture of poverty,"" Caroline Moser tells a very different story of five neighborhood women and their families strategically accumulating assets to escape poverty in the Ecuadoran city of Guayaquil. In Ordinary Families, Extraordinary Lives, Moser shows how a more sophisticated understanding of the complexities of asset accumulation as well as poverty...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0815703279

ISBN13:9780815703273

Release Date:November 2009

Publisher:Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury

Length:400 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"

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