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| Caroline Moser is a social anthropologist with more than twenty years of research experience in poor urban Latin American communities. She is currently a senior urban social policy specialist in the World Bank's Environment Department, Social Policy and Resettlement Division. Jeremy Holland did his doctoral research in urban poverty in Jamaica and is a lecturer at the Centre for Development Studies, University of Swansea, United Kingdom. |
| Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data |
Urban poverty and violence in Jamaica / Caroline Moser, Jeremy
Holland.
p. cm. (World Bank Latin American and Caribbean studies)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ).
ISBN 0-8213-3870-6
1. Urban poorJamaicaAttitudes. 2. ViolenceJamaicaPublic
opinion. 3. CrimeJamaicaPublic opinion. 4. Public opinion
Jamaica. 5. JamaicaSocial conditions. 6. JamaicaEconomic
conditions I. Holland, Jeremy, 1966- . II. Title.
III. Series
HV4063.A5M67 1997
364.2'56dc21 96-40537
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