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An edition of The Urban Caribbean (1997)

The Urban Caribbean

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The Urban Caribbean studies urbanization in five countries - Costa Rica, Haiti, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, and Jamaica - during the 1980s and 1990s, when the region's economy shifted from one heavily dependent on imports to one directed more to producing exports. This shift caused producers and entrepreneurs to rely more on microenterprises, thus challenging the informal economy networks of the central cities.

Sociologist Alejandro Portes and the other contributors use rich, in-depth data to examine both qualitative and quantitative changes in these five countries. Their research method allows them to make generalizations applicable to all five economies while retaining the concreteness of the similarities and differences that make each country unique.

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Johns Hopkins University
Language
English
Pages
260

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Subjects
Urbanization, Social conditions, Economic conditions, Caribbean area, economic conditions, Caribbean area, social conditions
Places
Caribbean Area

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The Urban Caribbean: Transition to the New Global Economy
May 8, 1997, The Johns Hopkins University Press
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The Urban Caribbean: transition to the new global economy
1997, Johns Hopkins University
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The Urban Caribbean: Transition to the New Global Economy
May 12, 1997, The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Baltimore, Md

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Dewey Decimal Class
307.76/09729
Library of Congress
HT384.C37 U695 1997

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Pagination
xvii, 260 p. :
Number of pages
260

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OL996521M
Internet Archive
urbancaribbeantr00alej
ISBN 10
0801855179, 0801855195
LCCN
96035184
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4411233
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