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Portrait of a Nation : Culture and Progress in Ecuador by Osvaldo Hurtado, translated by Barbara Sipe is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Portrait of a Nation : Culture and Progress in Ecuador about?
<p>A case study of why Third World countries are still poor, the premise of this book is that while some progress has been made in transforming the political economy of Ecuador, certain behaviors, beliefs and attitudes have kept the country from developing in ways that otherwise would have been possible. As the author asserts, for almost five centuries the cultural habits of Ecuadorian citizens have constituted a stumbling block for individual economic success. Still, he concludes, people's cultural values are not immutable: inconvenient customs can be changed or influenced by the economic success of immigrants. This is the challenge that Ecuador faces in the twenty-first century.</p>
Who reads Portrait of a Nation : Culture and Progress in Ecuador?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Osvaldo Hurtado, translated by Barbara Sipe
- Publisher
- Madison Books : Distributed by National Book Network
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781568332635
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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