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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
"This is a very welcome addition to the development literature on Peru both because of the richness of its data and its innovative and methodologically rigorous use of the idea of wellbeing to extract generally applicable insights. An ethnographic approach and a long period in the field in seven poor Peruvian communities, chosen to represent a rural-urban continuum, result in compelling data on how people perceive their situation, on their goals and their experiences of migration and community institutions. The contributors successfully illuminate the differences in the patterns of wellbeing, showing why these differences do not necessarily correspond to objective differences in poverty, education, or employment. The volume concludes with the general implications of their findings for Peru, for international development policy and practice and, finally, for advancing well-being research and theory." - Bryan R. Roberts, Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin; Director of Teresa Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Wellbeing and Development in Peru
Book Subtitle: Local and Universal Views Confronted
Editors: James Copestake
Series Title: Studies of the Americas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230616998
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-60869-6Published: 13 January 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-37567-7Published: 13 January 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-61699-8Published: 24 November 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 269
Topics: Latin American Culture, Development Economics, Development Studies, Social Work