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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782310403321

Autore

Verrest Hebe

Titolo

Home-based economic activities and Caribbean urban livelihoods [[electronic resource] ] : vulnerability, ambition and impact in Paramaribo and Port of Spain / / Hebe Joanna Louisa Maria Verrest

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, The Netherlands, : Amsterdam University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-281-99091-4

9786611990916

90-485-0196-2

Edizione

[Rev. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (331 p.)

Classificazione

73.30

Disciplina

300

Soggetti

Urban poor - Economic aspects - Suriname

Urban poor - Economic aspects - Trinidad and Tobago

Community development, Urban - Economic aspects - Developing countries

Urban poor - Social aspects - Suriname

Urban poor - Social aspects - Trinidad and Tobago

Thuiswerk

Onderontwikkeling

Kwetsbaarheid

Suriname (land)

Trinidad en Tobago

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Publication of book was made possible by a grant from WOTRO (Science for Global Development) of the NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) and AMIDSt (Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies, University of Amsterdam.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279 - 298).

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; List of Maps; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Methodology; 3. Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago; 4. Caribbean Urban Livelihoods; 5. Home-Based Economic Activities; 6. Organisins HBEAs; 7. HBEAs, Institutions and Social Relations; 8. Conclusions; Bibliography; Appendix; Samenvatting

Sommario/riassunto

A study of the importance of home-based economic activities to



Caribbean urban livelihoods, surveying the way low-income households organise such activities, and the role of institutions and policies involved in the process.