Ordinary families, extraordinary lives: assets and poverty reduction in guayaquil, 1978-2004
Auteur :
Moser, Caroline O.N.
Éditeur :
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN :
9780815703273
Date de publication :
3 nov. 2009
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,3 x 2,6 cm
Poids :
549 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.