Under structural adjustment, export industries received support while corn, bean and rice farmers lost their government sponsored credit and price supports.
Collins and Lear present a close examination of the "Chilean miracle," demonstrating how well the "exception" fits the rule: success for the few, disaster for the many.
The rebellion in southern Mexico led by the Zapatista National Liberation Army is rooted in the profound agricultural crisis of the state of Chiapas.
Dragons in Distress challenges the prevailing wisdom on Asia's "miracle economies."
The question for most third world countries is not how to attain common prosperity but how to arrest their descent into a common misery.
Unless we are honestly willing to confront the roots of people's powerlessness, we cannot hope to halt population growth in the future.
U.S. policy in South Africa has been contradictory--denouncing apartheid while blocking actions aimed at weakening apartheid.
Recent dramatic events in the Philippines have underlined the volatile, revolutionary process that is underway in the country.
During the 1980s, U.S. aid to Central America has skyrocketed, yet the crisis persists.
The North Koreans started to reorganize agriculture immediately after the 1953 Korean armistice to respond to the productive demands created by their policy of self-reliance.
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