Publications by Author: Small, Mario Luis

2010
Lamont, Michèle, Mario Luis Small, and David J. Harding. 2010. “Reconsidering Culture and Poverty.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 629. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science: 6-27.
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2007
Lamont, Michèle, and Mario Luis Small. 2007. “Cultural Diversity and Poverty Eradication.” World Report on Cultural Diversity, UNESCO. Abstract

This paper examines the relationship between culture and poverty, paying special attention to cultural diversity, economic development, and the challenges facing the reduction of poverty in a culturally complex world. Over the last several decades, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, and even economists have examined the relationship between culture and poverty in an international context, producing a remarkably diverse and in recent years increasingly sophisticated literature (Rao and Walton 2004). Yet the term “culture” has meant different things to different scholars, and part of our challenge is to assess those meanings against what we know about poverty and development. We cannot hope in these few pages to cover all this work, address all its complexities, or even summarize it faithfully. Instead, we cover a narrow but critical set of issues we find especially important for those attempting to reduce poverty or its consequences in the globalized world in which we live.

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