The Barbecho Crisis, La Plaga del Banco, and International Migration: Structural adjustment in Ecuador's southern Amazon

Latin American Perspectives

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 108-122

  Bates, Diane C ^a  

^a The College of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Cattle ranching; Colonist agriculture; Debt; Ecuador

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL FINANCE; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; FINANCIAL CRISIS; INFLATION; INTEREST RATE; LENDING BEHAVIOR; RANCHING; STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT; STRUCTURAL POLICY;

AMAZONIA; ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

BOS;

EID: 34247218111     PISSN: 0094582X     EISSN: 1552678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0094582X07300591     Document Type: Article

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