The Roots of Poverty in Latin America

by Guillermo M. Yeatts

In the Americas, the Rio Grande has become not just a physical border, but an economic and social one as well. How can we explain the existence of two Americas--one prosperous, one poor--physically so close together, yet economically so far apart? The Roots of Poverty is an in-depth analysis of how cultural, religious and social institutions have shaped the economic destinies of North America and Latin America over the last five hundred years...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786422351
• ISBN13: 9780786422357
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher