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

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

Book Overview

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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"