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Caroline Moser (1998)
The Asset Vulnerability Framework: Reassessing Urban Poverty Reduction Strategies''World Development
C. Moser (1998)
The asset vulnerability framework: reassessing urban poverty reduction strategies, 26
F. Ellis (2000)
Rural Livelihoods and Diversity in Developing CountriesWorld Development
This book describes a unique 26‐year longitudinal study of household and neighbourhood change in Indio Guayas, an urban squatter settlement in Guayaquil, Ecuador, the country's largest city and commercial capital. Moser traces the evolution of the settlement from an uncleared area of mangrove swamp to an established urban neighbourhood, along with the evolution of households from young couples to extended families. Importantly, the work draws on both qualitative and qualitative methods including repeated qualitative interviews with five families and a structured longitudinal survey implemented in 1978, 1992, and 2005. Moser situates the work at the intersection of critical development studies and development economics, and addresses arguments from both sides about the causes of poverty and development. Overall, this unique study is an important contribution to interdisciplinary development studies, but it nonetheless has significant quantitative and theoretical weaknesses. Moser is one of the originators of asset‐centred approaches to development studies (Moser, 1998 ), and she structures the narrative around Indio Guayas' accumulation of several types of assets, including housing, consumer goods, education, and social capital. Chapter 1 introduces the study, which began as a documentary project for the BBC and subsequently integrated a variety of approaches from anthropology, sociology,
Population, Space and Place – Wiley
Published: May 1, 2011
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