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Survey Article Rural Poverty and Development Strategies in Latin America
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In this paper, the authors examined the marginality, social exclusion, new rurality and rural livelihoods, as well as the ethnic and gender dimensions of poverty, and argued that the starting point for the eradication of poverty has to be the implementation of a development strategy that addresses such inequalities while at the same time achieving competitiveness within the global system.Abstract:
Several approaches to the study of poverty are discussed, to learn from their strengths as well as their weaknesses. For this purpose the concepts of marginality, social exclusion, new rurality and rural livelihoods, as well as the ethnic and gender dimensions of poverty, are examined. The debate on the peasantization (capitalization) or proletarianization (pauperization) of the peasantry sets the scene for the analysis of the different strategies adopted by peasants and rural labourers to secure their survival and perhaps achieve some prosperity. In examining the success or failure of interventions by governments, civil society and international organizations in the reduction of poverty, it is claimed that the State has a key role to perform. Furthermore, it is argued that poverty is caused and reproduced by the unequal distribution of resources and power at the household, local, national and international levels. Therefore, the starting point for the eradication of poverty has to be the implementation of a development strategy that addresses such inequalities while at the same time achieving competitiveness within the global system.read more
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Politization, participation, and innovation:Socializing agricultural research in Bolivia
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that there is a need to bring politics into science, but differentiates between two levels: politics as a mode of governance or a political project that shapes the scientific process (macro-politics), and politics as an eternal process of contestation in society (micro-politics).
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Planning in India: where is natural resources in the development strategy?
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Logging Road, Transportation and Outward Migration in Sarawak: The Local Perspective of Marudi Town
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A policy framework to promote Eco-Efficient agriculture
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarized examples of good eco-efficiency practices and identified policy and institutional frameworks needed to move agriculture towards global eco-efficient practices, and identified policies and institutional arrangements that focus on long-term food security and eco efficiency.
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Forms of Capital
TL;DR: The notion of capital is a force inscribed in objective or subjective structures, but it is also a lex insita, the principle underlying the immanent regularities of the social world as mentioned in this paper, which is what makes the games of society, not least the economic game, something other than simple simple games of chance offering at every moment the possibility of a miracle.
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The Forms of Capital
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Governing the market: economic theory and the role of government in East Asian industrialization
TL;DR: Wade's Governing the market quickly established itself as a standard in contemporary political economy as discussed by the authors, and the synergy between markets and public administration and the way allocation decisions were divided between markets, public administration, and corporations was examined.
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Sustainable rural livelihoods: Practical concepts for the 21st century
Robert Chambers,Gordon Conway +1 more
TL;DR: The concept of sustainable rural livelihoods as discussed by the authors is based on capability, equity, and sustainability, each of which is both end and means, and is defined as: "a livelihood comprises people, their capabilities and their means of living, including food, income and assets".
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The Logic of the Developmental State@@@Asia's Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization@@@The Political Economy of the New Asian Industrialism@@@MITI and the Japanese Miracle@@@Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization
TL;DR: Wade as mentioned in this paper reviewed the debate about industrial policy in East and Southeast Asia and chronicles the changing fortunes of these economies over the 1990s, and extended the original argument to explain the boom of the first half of the decade and the crash of the second, stressing the links between corporations, banks, governments, international capital markets and the International Monetary Fund.