The Urban Caribbean : transition to the new global economy / edited by Alejandro Portes, Carlos Dore-Cabral, and Patricia Landolt.

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Publication details: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University, [1997]Description: xvii, 260 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0801855179
9780801855177
0801855195
9780801855191

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Genre/Form:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Additional physical formats: Urban Caribbean.DDC classification:

307.76/09729 20

LOC classification:

HT384.C37 U695 1997

Other classification:

71.14
MS 1750
MS 1810
QG 630
RV 50597
RV 50627

Online resources:

Contents:

Studying Caribbean urbanization : an introduction to the comparative project / Alejandro Portes, Carlos Dore-Cabral, and Patricia Landolt -- Urbanization in the Caribbean basin : social change during the years of the crisis / Alejandro Portes, Jos e Itzigsohn, and Carlos Dore-Cabral -- Costa Rica : dilemmas of urbanization in the 1990s / Mario Lungo -- Haiti : the popular sectors and the crisis in Port-au-Prince / Sabine Manigat -- Guatemala : the two faces of the Metropoltan area / Juan Pablo P erez-S ainz -- Dominican Republic : informal economy, the state, and the urban poor / Wilfredo Lozano -- Jamaica : urbanization during the years of the crisis / Derek Gordon, Patricia Anderson, and Don Robotham -- Coping with change : the politics and economics of urban poverty / Alejandro Portes and Jos e Itzigsohn.

Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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