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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Technical Papers Series
Author: Handbook of Latin American Studies
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 910
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Contains records describing books, book chapters, articles, and conference papers published in the field of Latin American studies. Coverage includes relevant books as well as over 800 social science and 550 humanities journals and volumes of conference proceedings. Most records include abstracts with evaluations.
World Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Abstracts
Author: Food, the State, and International Political Economy
Author: W. Ladd HollistPublisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Focuses on three political economy themes: developing countries' food policies; the international political economy of food and agriculture (trade relations, foreign food aid, agribusiness); and what mixture of capital-intensive and labour-intensive techniques to use.
Rural Development Abstracts
Author: Sendero Luminoso in Context
Author: John M. BennettPublisher: Rlpg/Galleys
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
El Sendero Luminoso--The Shining Path--is Peru's long-standing Maoist revolutionary group that has significantly shifted the entire landscape of Peruvian political, social, and cultural life in fundamental ways. Emerging from the fractured leftist movements of the 1960s, The Shining Path has garnered world-wide attention as a unique, self-sufficient revolutionary group. The focus of the bibliography is on major works dealing with The Shining Path, articles and studies published in Latin American and other related scholarly journals, and Peruvian books that deal directly with the effects wrought by The Shining Path upon Peru. Also included are titles that do not deal directly with The Shining Path but discuss in depth the political context which nurtured the development of revolutionary groups such as The Shining Path and MRTA (Tupac Amaru), the Peruvian guerrilla group that captured world attention in 1997 by holding the Japanese embassy hostage for months. Approximately 1500 entries are included in this thorough bibliography. Short annotations highlight important aspects of the source. The bibliography is segmented into helpful subject areas that provide a cohesive sphere of information concerning the intersections of The Shining Path and Peruvian life, as well as interest in the revolutionary movement abroad. A helpful index completes this work.
The Institute of Latin American Studies of the University of Texas at Austin During the Administration of William P. Glade, Jr., 1971-1986
Author: Food Production in the People's Republic of China
Author: Anthony M. TangPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN: 0896290174
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Abstract: A population of one billion people has the potential for enormous impact on the world food supply, but demographic and food production data for the People's Republic of China have been difficult to obtain. In an effort to fill this gap, two papers are presented which attempt ot synthesize and analyze as much information as is available and make predictions of probable trends in agriculture and related fields in the year 2000 and for the 1985 grain program. Records from 1952-77 are used to estimate cultivated land, animals, energy consumption, farm machinery, fertilizer, and output of grains, soybeans and cotton. The effects of industrailization and resources are considered. Trends are toward population control, although total demand will continue to grow; emphasis on agriculture seems to indicate that production will be capable of keeping up with demand, may result in some dietary improvement, but will not provide for emergency supplies.
The Peasant Betrayed
Author: John H. PowelsonPublisher: Cato Institute
ISBN: 1937184285
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
After studying land reform in 16 countries and offering illustrative examples from 11 more, Powelson and Stock conclude that government land reforms generally harm the rural poor more than help them. Detailing case after case in which government intervention has impoverished the peasant, the authors find only a few cases in which the government has made the peasant better off. In contrast, they show that in Third World countries where the state has left farming to the farmer, agricultural output has soared, famine has been overcome, and the welfare of the peasant has vastly improved.
Bibliographic Guide to Business and Economics
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
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Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 704
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