Agrarian Structure in Latin America


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Study of agrarian structures in Latin America, with particular reference to land tenure systems and agrarian reform programmes - examines the relationship between land tenure and economic development (incl. In respect of productivity, income distribution, investment, etc.), and includes case studies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala and Peru. Maps, references and statistical tables.




Agrarian Structure in Latin America


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Agrarian Structure and Political Power


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The troubled history of democracy in Latin America has been the subject of much scholarly commentary. This volume breaks new ground by systematically exploring the linkages among the historical legacies of large landholding patterns, agrarian class relations, and authoritarian versus democratic trajectories in Latin American countries. The essays address questions about the importance of large landownders for the national economy, the labor needs and labor relations of these landowners, attempts of landowners to enlist the support of the state to control labor, and the democratic forms of rule in the twentieth century.




Structural Adjustment and the Agricultural Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean


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As a result of the regional debt crisis, most governments of Latin America in the 1980s entered into a process of profound policy change, from an import substitution oriented strategy to a focus upon export-promotion, with an emphasis upon market liberalisation. According to mainstream economic theory, the effect of this shift would be to favour agriculture. This book, with contributors from Latin America and Europe, surveys the results on agriculture of a decade of policy change, and to produce new and unexpected insights.







Economic Development of Latin America


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"This is an introductory survey of the history and recent development of Latin American economy and society from colonial times to the establishment of the military regime in Chile. In the second edition the historical perspective has been enlarged and important events since the Cuban Revolution, such as the agrarian reforms of Peru and Chile, the difficulties of the Central America Common Market and LAFTA, the acceleration of industrialisation in Brazil and the consolidation of the Cuban economy, are discussed. The statistical information has been extended to the early 1970s and the demographic data to 1975"--Back cover.




A Theory of Agrarian Structure


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Working paper on the possible effects of agrarian reform on agrarian structure under different patterns of development and modernization in Latin America - examines the various types of agricultural enterprise and considers whether agrarian reform is more beneficial to the small farmer and rural worker under capitalism or under socialism. References.