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Author Moser, Caroline O. N

Title Ordinary families, extraordinary lives : assets and poverty reduction in Guayaquil, 1978-2004 / Caroline O.N. Moser
Published Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 360 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map
Contents Introduction to Indio Guayas and the study -- Grappling with poverty : from asset vulnerability to asset accumulation -- A home of one's own : squatter housing as a physical asset -- Social capital, gender, and the politics of physical infrastructure -- Leadership, empowerment, and "community participation" in negotiating for social services -- Earning a living or getting by : labor as an asset -- Families and household social capital : reducing vulnerability and accumulating assets -- The impact of intrahousehold dynamics on asset vulnerability and accumulation -- Daughters and sons : intergenerational asset accumulation -- Migration to Barcelona and transnational asset accumulation -- Youth crime, gangs, and violent death : community responses to insecurity -- Research and policy lessons from Indio Guayas
Summary "Longitudinal account of five families strategically accumulating assets to escape poverty in Guayaquil. Captures the causes and consequences of these developments through economic data and anthropological narrative, within the broader context of political, economic, and spatial changes in Ecuador. Covers such issues as housing, employment, family dynamics, violence, and emigration"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-349) and index
Notes English
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Subject Saving and investment -- Ecuador -- Guayaquil -- Case studies
Poverty -- Ecuador -- Guayaquil -- Case studies
Poor -- Ecuador -- Guayaquil -- Case studies
Poverty -- Government policy -- Ecuador -- Guayaquil -- Case studies
Economic assistance, Domestic -- Ecuador -- Guayaquil -- Case studies
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Macroeconomics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Economics.
Economic assistance, Domestic
Poor
Poverty
Poverty -- Government policy
Saving and investment
Social policy
SUBJECT Guayaquil (Ecuador) -- Social policy -- Case studies
Subject Ecuador -- Guayaquil
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780815704201
0815704208
0815703279
9780815703273
1282403737
9781282403734
9786612403736
661240373X