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Showing papers in "Bulletin of Latin American Research in 1992"


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that policy experiences in different countries and periods share common features, from the initial conditions, the motivation for policies, the argument that the country's conditions are different, to the ultimate collapse.

233 citations



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TL;DR: The strategically relevant physical environment small-farmer adaptive strategies models, scenarios, and the larger context prehistoric agricultural adaptations prehistoric irrigation prehistoric raised fields adaptation and settlement in late prehistoric times.

66 citations


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TL;DR: In Mexico, as in many other Third World countries in recent years, the belief in export-led industrialisation fuelled by foreign investment and technology (ELIFFIT) is beginning to displace other available development strategies, such as import substitution, varying degrees of autarky, or the traditional reliance on primary product export as discussed by the authors.

55 citations




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TL;DR: MacCormack as discussed by the authors reconstructs how Andean religion was understood by the Spanish in light of seventeenth-century European theological and philosophical movements, and by Andean writers trying to find in it antecedents to their new Christian faith.

23 citations







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TL;DR: Andrews et al. as discussed by the authors studied the relationship between the labor movement and actions of the United States in Central America and found that labor leaders followed a complex logic that led them to support Mexican workers and yet contribute to Mexico's economic dependence on the U.S. The interplay between progressive forces within the AFL especially trade-union Socialists and American corporatist elements is a principal focus of this revealing study.





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TL;DR: The political economy of labour in Argentina, 1870-1930, Jeremy Adelman workers' housing and living conditions in Buenos Aires, 1880-30, Leandro H. Gutierrez and Juan Suriano between rise and fall - self-employed workers in Buenos Argentina, 1850-1880, Luis Alberto Romero and Hilda Sabato typographical workers and their mutualist experience - the case of the "Sociedad Tipografica Bonaerense", 1857- 1880, Sylvia Badoza the harvest hand - wage-labouring on the pampas,





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TL;DR: The reasons behind the gathering pace of repopulation and the physical and human rights' conditions under which people survived once home are discussed in this article, and the response by the armed forces and the plight of humanitarian agencies are also considered here.


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TL;DR: For less developed countries (LDCs) within this emerging regime, options are many and the management of developmental paths still requires a vision molded by countries' individual circumstances.


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TL;DR: The success and failure of British investment in the years 1824-1848, the question of labour, and the annual average was only just above 1 million pesos as mentioned in this paper.



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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the labour earnings of the self-employed, which corresponds to a natural, non-econometric shadow pricing of education as a factor of production.