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Rural progress, rural decay : neoliberal adjustment policies and local initiatives / edited by Liisa L. North and John D. Cameron.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rural development--Ecuador.
- Rural development.
- Structural adjustment (Economic policy)--Ecuador.
- Structural adjustment (Economic policy).
- Non-governmental organizations--Ecuador.
- Non-governmental organizations.
- Rural development--Latin America.
- Structural adjustment (Economic policy)--Latin America.
- Non-governmental organizations--Latin America.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomfield, CT : Kumarian Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How do rural development programs, especially those run by nongovernmental organizations, cope in a time of structural adjustment programs and economical liberalization? Using Ecuador as a representative example, the authors of Rural Progress, Rural Decay explore the consequences of neoliberal macroeconomic policies for equitable development—and demonstrate that NGOs can make little headway in promoting "poor people's entrepreneurship" in what remains an essentially big-business-dominated economic and political environment.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Acronyms""; ""Part I THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ""; ""Part II POLICY CHOICES, POLICY IMPACTS: ECUADOR IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE ""; ""Part III CASE STUDIES FROM THE ECUADORIAN HIGHLANDS ""; ""Bibliography""; ""About the Contributors""; ""Index""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-248) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-56549-609-4
- OCLC:
- 1097154543
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