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Globalized fruit, local entrepreneurs : how one banana-exporting country achieved worldwide reach / Douglas Southgate and Lois Roberts.
LIBRA HD9259.B3 E289 2016
Available from offsite location
LIBRA HD9259.B3 E289 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Southgate, Douglas DeWitt, 1952- author.
- Roberts, Lois J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Banana trade--Ecuador.
- Banana trade.
- Ecuador.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 219 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Octopus 7
- Chapter 2 El Pulpo's South American Rivals 20
- Chapter 3 Never a Banana Republic 38
- Chapter 4 Good Governance, for a Change 53
- Chapter 5 South American Entrepreneurs Go Global 69
- Chapter 6 Keeping Up with Technological Advances 89
- Chapter 7 Agrarian Reform, Unionization, and a Policy Tilt Against Agriculture 106
- Chapter 8 Resurgence 125
- Chapter 9 The Environmental Impact 145
- Chapter 10 Continuing Challenges, New Risks 157
- Chapter 11 Creative Destruction? 174.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-208) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812248074
- 0812248074
- OCLC:
- 927401373
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