Rural Poverty in Latin America

This book provides fresh insight into rural poverty in Latin America. It draws on six case studies of recent rural household surveys - for Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Paraguay, and Peru - and several thematic studies examining land, labour, rural financial markets, the environments, and...

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Other Authors: López, Ramón (Editor), Valdés, Alberto (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2000, 2000
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This book provides fresh insight into rural poverty in Latin America. It draws on six case studies of recent rural household surveys - for Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Paraguay, and Peru - and several thematic studies examining land, labour, rural financial markets, the environments, and disadvantaged groups. Recognizing the heterogeneity within the rural economy, the studies characterize three important groups - small farmers, landless farm workers, and rural non-farm workers - and provide quantitative and qualitative analyses of the determinants of household income
Physical Description:XIII, 343 p online resource
ISBN:9780333977798