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

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"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 Ecua...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Moser, Caroline O. N.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social policy.
Saving and investment.
Poverty > Government policy.
Poverty.
Poor.
Economic assistance, Domestic.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Macroeconomics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
Aide au developpement economique regional > Équateur > Guayaquil > Études de cas.
Pauvrete > Politique gouvernementale > Équateur > Guayaquil > Études de cas.
Pauvres > Équateur > Guayaquil > Études de cas.
Pauvrete > Équateur > Guayaquil > Études de cas.
Economic assistance, Domestic > Ecuador > Guayaquil > Case studies.
Poverty > Government policy > Ecuador > Guayaquil > Case studies.
Poor > Ecuador > Guayaquil > Case studies.
Poverty > Ecuador > Guayaquil > Case studies.
Saving and investment > Ecuador > Guayaquil > Case studies.
Ecuador > Guayaquil.
Guayaquil (Ecuador) > Social policy > Case studies.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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