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Broken promises : agrarian reform and the Latin American campesino

Author: William C Thiesenhusen
Publisher: Boulder : Westview Press, 1995.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Critically examines successes and failures of agrarian reform efforts in Bolivia, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Mexico. Concludes that agrarian reform has done little to reduce poverty or to create employment opportunities and a more equal distribution of resources. Worth reading"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
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Thiesenhusen, William C.
Broken promises.
Boulder : Westview Press, 1995
(OCoLC)654839046
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: William C Thiesenhusen
ISBN: 0813384583 9780813384580 0813324017 9780813324012
OCLC Number: 32226236
Description: xiii, 226 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Early revolutionary reforms: Mexico --
Early revolutionary reforms: Bolivia --
Early revolutionary reforms : Guatemala --
Reforms of the Alliance for Progress era: Chile --
Reforms of the 1980s: Nicaragua --
Reforms of the 1980s: El Salvador.
Responsibility: William C. Thiesenhusen.

Abstract:

"Critically examines successes and failures of agrarian reform efforts in Bolivia, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Mexico. Concludes that agrarian reform has done little to reduce poverty or to create employment opportunities and a more equal distribution of resources. Worth reading"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

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