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Precarity, Poverty, and Predatory Lending: Post-Flood Survival in Colonias of the Rio Grande Valley

Description:

Informal housing settlements along the US-Mexico border, known as colonias, developed in the latter half of the 20th century and are characterized by poverty, a lack of infrastructure, and spatial marginalization. The marginalization of these communities is multifaceted: these vulnerabilities...

Author:

Belury, Lucas

Keyword:

Predatory Lending, Flooding, Race, Poverty, Natural Disasters, and Colonia

GW Unit:

Geography

Degree:

M.S.

Advisor:

Price, Marie and Atia, Mona

Resource Type:

Thesis or Dissertation
Exclusionary Development: Knowledge and Accessibility in Rural Morocco

Description:

In recent decades, there has been an increased awareness of the concentration of the poor in rural and underdeveloped areas and increased attention to scaled economic and multi-dimensional assessments as tools for targeting rural poverty. While this has led to new forms of development...

Author:

Doherty, Grace

Keyword:

Metrics, Rural, Remoteness, Poverty, Development, and MENA

GW Unit:

Geography

Degree:

M.S.

Advisor:

Atia, Mona

Committee Member(s):

Price, Marie and Cowan, Nuala

Resource Type:

Thesis or Dissertation