Author: Publisher: IICA
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Author: Perspectives in Resource Management in Developing Countries
Author: Baleshwar ThakurPublisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN: 9788180694028
Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
v. 2. Population, resources and development -- v.3. Ecological degradation of land
Author: Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Empowering Women
Author: Carmen Diana DeerePublisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 9780822972327
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The expansion of married women's property rights was a main achievement of the first wave of feminism in Latin America. As Carmen Diana Deeere and Magdalena Leon reveal, however, the disjuncture between rights and actual ownership remains vast. This is particularly true in rural areas, where the distribution of land between men and women is highly unequal. In their pioneering, twelve-country comparative study, the authors argue that property ownership is directly related to womenÆs bargaining power within the household and community, point out changes resulting from recent gender-progressive legislation, and identify additional areas for future reform, including inheritance rights of wives.
The National Agendas for Technical Cooperation
Author: Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Las agendas regionales de cooperación técnica. Resumen ejecutivo / The regional agendas for technical cooperation. Executive summary
Author: Encountering Development
Author: Arturo EscobarPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691150451
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Originally published: 1995. Paperback reissue, with a new preface by the author.
Managing the Commanding Heights
Author: Forrest D. ColburnPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520414780
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Revolutions have often occurred in poor countries. Although triumphant revolutionaries may lack the resources to assume complete responsibility for their country’s economy, they do tend to nationalize what Lenin called the “commanding heights”—those enterprises that meet the strategic needs of the polity. How these enterprises are administered is consequential, and at times decisive, for the course of revolutionary change. In Managing the Commanding Heights, Forrest D. Colburn explores the Sandinistas’ management of Nicaragua’s state enterprises, with an emphasis on the critical agrarian sector. Central to the book are three lively and instructive case studies that provide a penetrating glimpse into life in post-revolutionary Nicaragua. In analyzing these cases, Colburn explains the intentions of the Sandinista elite and links them with choices made at individual enterprises. Colburn argues that state enterprises have been politically useful but economically unsuccessful. Even with the unseen political advantages of state enterprises, the pronounced financial losses of nationalized farms and factories exacerbate the economic—and ultimately political—vulnerability of a regime already weakened by counterrevolution. The evidence demonstrates trenchant limitations to a revolutionary state’s capacity to improve popular welfare. State capacity is undermined by multiple factors: international constraints on the autonomy of post-revolutionary regimes, sheer poverty, the unintended but inevitable political manipulation of the economy, the lack of managerial ability among even well-intentioned elites, and a revolutionary mentalité that erodes rationality. These same difficulties have bedeviled other post-revolutionary regimes, notably those in Africa. Managing the Commanding Heights is essential reading for anyone interested in the dynamics of revolutionary regimes and the possibilities for radical change in poor countries. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.
The Political Economy of Agrarian Change in Latin America
Author: Matilda Baraibar NorbergPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030245861
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
This book makes an original contribution to the discussion about agro-food exporting countries’ governmental policy. It presents a historicized and internationally contextualized exploration of the political economy of agrarian change in three Latin American countries: Argentina, Praguay, and Uruguay. By comparatively examining how these states have acted in a context of global driven market forces and historically formed institutions, the monograph illuminates the differing capacities of state autonomy under the present era of globalized agriculture.
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