Odd jobs, and beggars: permanent sample of inequality and poverty in the city of Cúcuta, North Santander, Colombia

This paper makes a theoretical and reflexive approach to inequality and poverty in San José de Cúcuta, North Santander, border between Colombia and Venezuela. It presents factors associated with unemployment, which contribute to begging, alms and odd jobs from a socio–economic environment, collects...

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Main Authors:	Castro, William Rodrigo Avendaño, Montes, Luisa Stella Paz
Format:	Online
Language:	spa
Published:	Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia 2013
Subjects:	beggars begging odd jobs unemployment informal economy poverty. Limosneros mendicidad rebusque desempleo. (Beggars unemployment)
Online Access:	https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/cenes/article/view/2072
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Summary:	This paper makes a theoretical and reflexive approach to inequality and poverty in San José de Cúcuta, North Santander, border between Colombia and Venezuela. It presents factors associated with unemployment, which contribute to begging, alms and odd jobs from a socio–economic environment, collects basic information applying a semi-structured survey (random) to a specific population: determining agents of a permanent practice of informal economy in the city. The results refer to a population sample from, for the most part, to a different regions of the country, associated with such aspects of not only economic, but social and forced displacement because of internal armed conflict and violence (IDPs: Internally Displaced Persons), leading to their establishment in the city which has generated health, education, security problems, among others.