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- Preface
- Figures (and map)
- Tables
- Contributors
- Shifting Paradigms in Latin America's Economic Development
- Institutions and the Historical Roots of Latin American Divergence
- Political Institutions, Policymaking, and Economic Policy in Latin America
- The Washington Consensus: Assessing A “damaged Brand”
- From Old to New Developmentalism in Latin America
- Environmental Sustainability
- Taming Capital Account Shocks: Managing Booms and Busts
- Exchange Rate Regimes in Latin America
- Monetary Policy in Latin America: Performance Under Crisis and the Challenges of Exuberance
- Domestic Financial Development in Latin America
- Fiscal Policy in Latin America
- Fiscal Legitimacy, Inequalities, and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America
- Latin America in the World Trade System
- Regional Integration
- The Effects of Trade Liberalization on Growth, Employment, and Wages
- The Recent Commodity Price Boom and Latin American Growth: More than New Bottles for an Old Wine?
- Curse or Blessing? Natural Resources and Human Development
- Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America
- China and the Future of Latin American Economic Development
- Latin America in the Recent Wave of International Migration
- Structural Transformation and Economic Growth in Latin America
- Learning, Technological Capabilities, and Structural Dynamics
- Why Has Productivity Growth Stagnated in Most Latin American Countries Since the Neo-Liberal Reforms?
- Agricultural and Rural Development
- An Energy Panorama of Latin America
- Infrastructure in Latin America
- The Rise and Fall of Income Inequality in Latin America
- Multidimensional Poverty in Latin America: Concept, Measurement, and Policy
- Economic Insecurity and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Employment: The Dominance of the Informal Economy
- Latin American Labor Reforms: Evaluating Risk and Security
- Education
- Social Protection in Latin America: Achievements and Limitations
- Social Security Reforms in Latin America
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
Structural reforms implemented at both the macroeconomic and sector levels beginning in the 1980s played a fundamental role in the formation of Latin America's heterogeneous agricultural sector. Nearly all countries in the region embraced the same reform principles. Typically, these reforms saw unilateral trade liberalization, the elimination of subsidies, the privatization or closure of state-owned firms, the dismantling of research and extension institutions or a significant curtailment of their activities, and the deregulation of markets for agricultural goods and services. This chapter reviews these reforms, the challenges each country has faced in their implementation, and their impacts on the agriculture sectors of Latin American countries, and also considers the role of the state in agriculture and rural development.
Keywords: Latin America, structural reforms, agricultural reforms, rural development, trade liberalization
Salomón Salcedo is Senior Policy Offcer, FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), New York
Fernando Soto-Baquero is Coordinator of the Policy Group of the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago.
José Graziano Da Silva is FAO Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago, and Professor at UNICAMP (Universidade Estadual de Campinas), Brasil.
Rodrigo Castañeda Sepúlveda is Consultant at FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago.
Sergio Gómez Echenique is Consultant at the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago.
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- [UNTITLED]
- Preface
- Figures (and map)
- Tables
- Contributors
- Shifting Paradigms in Latin America's Economic Development
- Institutions and the Historical Roots of Latin American Divergence
- Political Institutions, Policymaking, and Economic Policy in Latin America
- The Washington Consensus: Assessing A “damaged Brand”
- From Old to New Developmentalism in Latin America
- Environmental Sustainability
- Taming Capital Account Shocks: Managing Booms and Busts
- Exchange Rate Regimes in Latin America
- Monetary Policy in Latin America: Performance Under Crisis and the Challenges of Exuberance
- Domestic Financial Development in Latin America
- Fiscal Policy in Latin America
- Fiscal Legitimacy, Inequalities, and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America
- Latin America in the World Trade System
- Regional Integration
- The Effects of Trade Liberalization on Growth, Employment, and Wages
- The Recent Commodity Price Boom and Latin American Growth: More than New Bottles for an Old Wine?
- Curse or Blessing? Natural Resources and Human Development
- Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America
- China and the Future of Latin American Economic Development
- Latin America in the Recent Wave of International Migration
- Structural Transformation and Economic Growth in Latin America
- Learning, Technological Capabilities, and Structural Dynamics
- Why Has Productivity Growth Stagnated in Most Latin American Countries Since the Neo-Liberal Reforms?
- Agricultural and Rural Development
- An Energy Panorama of Latin America
- Infrastructure in Latin America
- The Rise and Fall of Income Inequality in Latin America
- Multidimensional Poverty in Latin America: Concept, Measurement, and Policy
- Economic Insecurity and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Employment: The Dominance of the Informal Economy
- Latin American Labor Reforms: Evaluating Risk and Security
- Education
- Social Protection in Latin America: Achievements and Limitations
- Social Security Reforms in Latin America
- Index
