Portrait of a nation : culture and progress in Ecuador /

A case study of why Third World countries are still poor, the premise of this book is that while some progress has been made in transforming the political economy of Ecuador, certain behaviors, beliefs and attitudes have kept the country from developing in ways that otherwise would have been possibl...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Hurtado, Osvaldo
Autres auteurs: Sipe, Barbara
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lanham : Madison Books : Distributed by National Book Network, Ã2010.
Édition:[English-language ed.].
Sujets:
Social change > Ecuador > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Civilization
Manners and customs
Social change
Ecuador > Civilization.
Ecuador > Social life and customs.
Quito (Audiencia) > History.
Quito (Audiencia) > Histoire.
Ecuador
South America > Quito (Audiencia)
History
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Résumé:A case study of why Third World countries are still poor, the premise of this book is that while some progress has been made in transforming the political economy of Ecuador, certain behaviors, beliefs and attitudes have kept the country from developing in ways that otherwise would have been possible. As the author asserts, for almost five centuries the cultural habits of Ecuadorian citizens have constituted a stumbling block for individual economic success. Still, he concludes, people's cultural values are not immutable: inconvenient customs can be changed or influenced by the economic succes.
Description:Edition statement from foreword.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (xxii, 215 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781568332635
1568332637

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