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Ordinary Families, Extraordinary Lives: Assets and Poverty Reduction in Guayaquil, 1978-2004
Ordinary Families Extraordinary Lives Assets and Poverty Reduction in Guayaquil 1978-2004
Author: Caroline O. N. Moser
Fifty years after Oscar Lewis' 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 m...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780815703273
ISBN-10: 0815703279
Pages: 360
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Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Book Type: Paperback
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