1 Rural Progress or Rural Decay?
An Overview of the Issues and the Case Studies = 1
LIISA L. NORTH
Part I Theoretical Perspectives
2 Problems of Contemporary Development
Neoliberalism and Its Consequences = 25
LOUIS LEFEBER
3 Exploring the Links Among Global Trade, Industrial Agriculture, and Rural Underdevelopment = 46
RICARDO GRINSPUN
Part II Policy Choices, Policy Impacts: Ecuador in Comparative Perspective
4 Agriculture and Rural Development
A Critique of Establishmentarian Policies in Ecuador = 69
LOUIS LEFEBER
5 Endogenous Peasant Responses to Structural Adjustment
Ecuador in Comparative Andean Perspective = 85
LUCIANO MARTINEZ VALLE
6 Rural Land Conflicts and Human Rights Violations in Ecuador = 106
LIISA L. NORTH, WADE A. KIT, AND ROBERT B. KOEP
Part III Case Studies from the Ecuadorian Highlands
7 Agrarian Capitalism and Communal Institutional Spaces
Chimborazo After the Land Reform = 127
TANYA KOROVKIN
8 The Contradictions of Rural Development NGOs
The Trajectory of the FEPP in Chimborazo = 143
VICTOR BRETON SOLO DE ZALDIVAR
9 Municipal Democratization and Rural Development in Highland Ecuador = 164
JOHN D. CAMERON
10 Externally Induced Rural Diversification
The Communitarian Experience of Salinas = 187
LIISA L. NORTH
11 Endogenous Rural Diversification
Family Textile Enterprises in Pelileo, Tungurahua = 207
LIISA L. NORTH
Bibliography = 227
About the Contributors = 249
Index 253
An Overview of the Issues and the Case Studies = 1
LIISA L. NORTH
Part I Theoretical Perspectives
2 Problems of Contemporary Development
Neoliberalism and Its Consequences = 25
LOUIS LEFEBER
3 Exploring the Links Among Global Trade, Industrial Agriculture, and Rural Underdevelopment = 46
RICARDO GRINSPUN
Part II Policy Choices, Policy Impacts: Ecuador in Comparative Perspective
4 Agriculture and Rural Development
A Critique of Establishmentarian Policies in Ecuador = 69
LOUIS LEFEBER
5 Endogenous Peasant Responses to Structural Adjustment
Ecuador in Comparative Andean Perspective = 85
LUCIANO MARTINEZ VALLE
6 Rural Land Conflicts and Human Rights Violations in Ecuador = 106
LIISA L. NORTH, WADE A. KIT, AND ROBERT B. KOEP
Part III Case Studies from the Ecuadorian Highlands
7 Agrarian Capitalism and Communal Institutional Spaces
Chimborazo After the Land Reform = 127
TANYA KOROVKIN
8 The Contradictions of Rural Development NGOs
The Trajectory of the FEPP in Chimborazo = 143
VICTOR BRETON SOLO DE ZALDIVAR
9 Municipal Democratization and Rural Development in Highland Ecuador = 164
JOHN D. CAMERON
10 Externally Induced Rural Diversification
The Communitarian Experience of Salinas = 187
LIISA L. NORTH
11 Endogenous Rural Diversification
Family Textile Enterprises in Pelileo, Tungurahua = 207
LIISA L. NORTH
Bibliography = 227
About the Contributors = 249
Index 253