世界経済・社会統計 = World development indicators

The East Asian miracle: Economic growth and public policy: By the World Bank. (New York: Oxford University Press for the World Bank, 1993. 389 pp. $19.95, paper.)

Capitals and Capabilities: A Framework for Analyzing Peasant Viability, Rural Livelihoods and Poverty

From a world history perspective, the most noticeable trend in the history of the late 19th century was the domination of Europeans over Non­Europeans. This domination took many forms ranging from economic penetration to outright annexation. No area of the globe, however remote from Europe, was free of European merchants, adventurers, explorers or western missionaries. Was colonialism good for either the imperialist or the peoples of the globe who found themselves subjects of one empire or another? A few decades ago, the answer would have been a resounding no. Now, in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the more or less widespread discrediting of Marxist and Leninist analysis, and the end of the Cold War, political scientists and historians seem willing to take a more positive look at Nineteenth Century Imperialism. One noted current historian, Niall Ferguson has argued that the British Empire probably accomplished more positive good for the world than the last generation of historians, poisoned by Marxism, could or would concede. Ferguson has argued that the British Empire was a \" liberal \" empire that upheld international law, kept the seas open and free, and ultimately benefited everyone by ensuring the free flow of trade. In other words, Ferguson would find little reason to contradict the young Winston Churchill's assertion that the aim of British imperialism was to: give peace to warring tribes, to administer justice where all was violence, to strike the chains off the slave, to draw the richness from the soil, to place the earliest seeds of commerce and learning, to increase in whole peoples their capacities for pleasure and diminish their chances of pain. It should come as no surprise that Ferguson regards the United States current position in the world as the natural successor to the British Empire and that the greatest danger the U.S. represents is that the world will not get enough American Imperialism because U.S. leaders often have short attention spans and tend to pull back troops when intervention becomes unpopular. It will be very interesting to check back into the debate on Imperialism about ten years from now and see how Niall Ferguson's point of view has fared! The other great school of thought about Imperialism is, of course, Marxist. For example, Marxist historians like E.J. Hobsbawm argue that if we look at the l9th century as a great competition for the world's wealth and …

The New Imperialism

I am indebted to three referees for extremely helpful comments This paper was revised during my stay at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, in March 1992 I thank colleagues and the library staff at Kiel for support I am grateful to the participants of a seminar at USAID for stimulating discussions I especially thank Jim Fox for his comments Roberto Schatan, Fernando Losada, and Abraham Vela, provided able assistance I am particularly indebted to Miguel Savastano for extensive assistance and comments on earlier versions of this paper Financial support from the Institute for Policy reform, the University of California Pacific Rim Program, and the National Science Foundation is gratefully acknowledged

Openness, Trade Liberalization and Growth In Developing Countries

Land grabbing has gained momentum in Latin America and the Caribbean during the past decade The phenomenon has taken different forms and character as compared to processes that occur in other regions of the world, especially Africa It puts into question some of the assumptions in the emerging literature on land grabbing, suggesting these are too food-centered/too food crisis-centered, too land-centred, too centred on new global food regime players – China, South Korea, Gulf States and India – and too centred on Africa There are four key mechanisms through which land grabbing in Latin American and the Caribbean has been carried out: food security initiatives, energy/fuel security ventures, other climate change mitigation strategies, and recent demands for resources from newer hubs of global capital The hallmark of land grabbing in the region is its intra-regional character: the key investors are (Trans-)Latin American companies, often in alliance with international capital and the central state Initia

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Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean

1. The Challenge from the Periphery 2. The Structuralist School of Development 3. Internal Colonialism: Ethnic and Class Relations 4. Marginality: Social Relations and Capital Accumulation 5. Reformist and Marxist Approaches to Dependency 6. Dependency: Debates, Critiques and Beyond 7. The Latin American Contribution in Perspective Index.

Latin American Theories of Development and Underdevelopment

Monetarism and Liberalization: The Chilean Experiment

We introduce this special issue by explaining seven characteristics of land grabbing in Latin America. These features are not unique to the region. By highlighting them – arguing, for instance, that a key aspect in Latin America is intra-regional land grabbing driven by (trans)Latina companies – we hope to inspire new cross-regional comparisons to understand the dynamics of “global” land grabbing. Our focus on Latin America challenges some problematic generalisations in the literature, for instance, that land grabs occur mainly in fragile states. We interrogate the relationship between land grabbing and the “foreignisation” narrative, and the need to revisit the broader question of land concentration. Thus we build upon the literature locating land grabs and the land question within the political economy of global capitalism. Cette introduction au numero special presente sept caracteristiques de l'accaparement des terres en Amerique latine, caracteristiques qui ne sont pas propres a la region. En les mett...

Land grabbing and global capitalist accumulation: key features in Latin America

This two-part article surveys the origin, development and current meaning of the ‘agrarian question’. Part One of the survey explored the history of the agrarian question, elaborating its origin in the work of Marx, Engels, Kautsky, and Lenin, and its development in the work of Preobrazhensky, Dobb, Brenner, and others. Part Two of the survey identifies seven current variants of the agrarian question and critically interrogates these variants in order to understand whether, and if so, how, the location of small-scale petty commodity food and farm production within contemporary capitalism has been reconfigured during the era of neoliberal globalisation. Together, the two parts of the survey argue that the agrarian question continues to offer a rigorously flexible framework by which to undertake a historically-informed and country-specific analysis of the material conditions governing rural production, reproduction, and the process of agrarian accumulation or its lack thereof, a process that is located with...

Cristóbal Kay

Papers

Land grabbing in Latin America and the Caribbean

Latin American Theories of Development and Underdevelopment

Monetarism and Liberalization: The Chilean Experiment

Land grabbing and global capitalist accumulation: key features in Latin America

Surveying the agrarian question (part 2): current debates and beyond