38 p., Analyzes total factor productivity growth in agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean between 1961 and 2007. The results show that among developing regions, Latin America and the Caribbean shows the highest agricultural productivity growth. The highest growth within the region has occurred in the last two decades, especially due to improvements in efficiency and the introduction of new technologies. Within the region, land-abundant countries consistently outperform land-constrained countries.
With stark income inequalities rooted in its dual currency economy, Cuba is taxing down high and unearned incomes, while trying to raise national productivity and official salaries through performance-related pay and labor restructuring. Such measures are portrayed as an abandonment of socialism, but in Cuba are discussed in terms of historic socialist debates about distribution and the balance of moral and material incentives at work, in a society still characterized by common ownership, social protection, and collective debate.
Danielson,Anders (Author) and Dijkstra,A. Geske (Author)
Format:
Monograph
Publication Date:
2001
Published:
New York: Palgrave
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
229p., Contents: Towards sustainability in central america and the caribbean / A. Geske Dijkstra and Anders Danielson -- Fiscal sustainability in the CAC region / Anders Danielson -- Fruits of interest / Trevor Evans -- Trade reform in central america and the caribbean / Rebecca Taylor and Andy Thorpe -- Economic reform, citizenship and social integration in central america / Carlos Sojo -- Crisis, adjustment and the dyamics of gender relations in central america and the caribbean / A. Geske Dijkstra -- Economic policy and the environment / Ruerd Ruben -- Sustained growth in Haiti / Mats Lundahl -- Performance of the manufacturing industry under adjustment / Philomen Harrison.
