Rural Poverty in Latin America - by R López & A Valdés (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

This book provides fresh insight into rural poverty in Latin America. It draws on six case studies of recent rural household surveys - for Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Paraguay, and Peru - and several thematic studies examining land, labour, rural financial markets, the environments, and disadvantaged groups. Recognizing the heterogeneity within the rural economy, the studies characterize three important groups - small farmers, landless farm workers, and rural non-farm workers - and provide quantitative and qualitative analyses of the determinants of household income.

About the Author

EDWARD BABIER Reader, Department of Environment Economics, University of York MICHAEL CARTER Professor, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison RODRIGO A. CHAVES Financial Economist, Sector Leadership Group, The World Bank, Washington, DC CARLA DELLA MAGGIORA Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland ALEJANDRA COX EDWARDS Professor, Department of Economics, California State University ROBERTO P. KORZENIEWICZ Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland PETER LANJOUW Economist, Poverty Research Department, The World Bank CLAUDIA ROMANO Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland SUSANNA SANCHEZ Consulting Economist, Sector Leadership Group, The World Bank, Washington, DC TIMOTHY S. THOMAS Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland EDUARDO ZEGARRA Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison