Titlebook: Structural Adjustment and the Agricultural Sector in Latin America and the Caribbean; John Weeks (Professor of Development Economics and B

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Introduction,11 per cent in 1970 to 33 per cent in 1990 (IDB, 1992, p. 196). However, agricultural exports remained a major source of foreign exchange for the region, accounting for about 40 per cent of the value of regional exports in the early 1990s and, of course, much more than this for a number of individua

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Rural Development and Agrarian Issues in Contemporary Latin America,into the global agro-industrial food regime and from within by state policies ranging from agrarian reform to liberalisation. By the 1990s the once dominant . or large landed estate system had largely vanished. Instead modern capitalist farms and agro-industrial complexes, many of which are linked t

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,Disentangling the Performance of Latin American Agriculture, 1980–1992,arly, what is common to the failures? What was the influence of economic policy and to what extent were the results under (or beyond) the control of the government? These are the kinds of questions addressed in this chapter. Clearly, it is only a first step. The theme is extremely complex and its st

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Macroeconomic Adjustment and Latin American Agriculture Since 1980,have been many reviews of the changes in macroeconomic policy in the region (eg., Bulmer-Thomas, 1992; Fanelli, Frenkel and Rozenwurcel, 1990) and of sectoral polices for agriculture (eg., FAO, 1992d), there have been relatively few overall reviews of agricultural performance such as one finds in su

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The Environment and Structural Adjustment: Lessons for Policy Interventions in the 1990S,ideration is being given to the alleged effects of such policies on the environment. This chapter argues, from Latin American material, that the situation of the poor has certainly worsened under structural adjustment policies, but that reduced sustainability needs to be seen against a longer-term p

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Argentine Agriculture and Economic Reform in the 1990S,pulation after a century of (mostly European) immigration. A country that in the early 20th century was among the top dozen countries of the world in terms of . GDP, foreign investment, economic growth and other indicators, only to see her output and her international standing stall and eventually g

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