Presenta un analisis de la produccion y el comercio externo de bienes agropecuarios de la region en los anos noventa. El documento consta de tres partes: la introduccion, donde se presentan en forma resumida los elementos caracteristicos del agro regional durante el periodo; el capitulo I estudia diversos aspectos del comportamiento del sector, y el capitulo II, donde se intenta una evaluacion de ese desempe?o, destacando los problemas que siguen pendientes.
This book confronts critical problems being experienced by Latin America in its quest for development. Special attention is paid to the living conditions of the popular sectors over the last half-century under “industrial colonialism.” The author’s framework of analysis weaves together key structural variables including the neoliberal mode of knowledge creation for material production in order to unveil the actual mechanisms of the reproduction of this system. The decisive role of science in the development of the productive forces forms the basis of explicating the “state development function.” The external and internal manifestations of the main underlying contradictions in Latin America are systematically exposed as they unfold from the region’s particular integration into the imperialist system.
This is the fifty-sixth edition in this series. It is divided into two parts. Part one deals with the performance of the region's economy and begins with an introduction that summarizes recent trends and the challenges faced by economic policy-makers. Chapters cover the international situation and the external sector, macroeconomic (fiscal, exchange-rate and monetary) policy and regional trends in the level of economic activity, inflation, employment and wages. Two additional contributions take an in-depth look at key elements of the region's economic development and are also related to its performance in the short term. The chapter on economic policy also includes a section on the sustainability of the public debt, an increasingly important issue for many countries in the region. The first part of the Survey concludes with a chapter that offers a comparative analysis of the region's economic growth from a medium-term perspective. Part two provides overviews of macroeconomic policies and trends in the Latin American and Caribbean countries in 2003 and the first half of 2004. These country reports include tables on the main economic indicators. The statistical appendix presents 25 regional tables, while the CD-ROM includes the text and figures that appear in the print version and contains over 400 tables which provide ready access to the information for recent years.
