Persistent Poverty: Underdevelopment in Plantation Economies of the Third WorldExamination of the ways in which structural characteristics of the plantation system influence the political, economic and social development process in developing countries, particularly in Asian and Caribbean countries and in Brazil - covers demographic aspects, traditional agriculture resource allocation, the labour supply of rural workers, the impact of technological change on plantation enterprises, etc. Bibliography, references and statistical tables. |
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Contents | xv |
Plantations in third world economy | xxvii |
The political economy of change in plantation | 30 |
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Africa agricultural analysis bananas Booker McConnell Brazil cane capital Caribbean Ceylon Chapter consideration contribute corporate costs crops cultural derives dynamic economic development established ex-slaves example existing export factors farm Fiji firm force groups growth Guyana important income increase individual Indonesia industry inputs institutional investment Jamaica land Limited Mauritius ment metropolitan enterprise Molasses nomic operations organization ownership pattern peasant plantation activity plantation areas plantation colony plantation economies plantation enterprise plantation influence plantation owners plantation production plantation society plantation system planter class plural political population problem profits race refining region relations relatively result sector secure sharecropper situation slave plantation slavery social structure Tate & Lyle tenant Third World Third World countries tion trade Trinidad U.S. South underdeveloped countries Unilever United Fruit Company United States South West Indian West Indies workers World plantation