Douglas Southgate, Lois Roberts

Globalized Fruit, Local Entrepreneurs

How One Banana-Exporting Country Achieved Worldwide Reach

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Douglas Southgate is Emeritus Professor of Agricultural, Environmental, and Developmental Economics at The Ohio State University. Lois Roberts formerly taught Latin American history and culture in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Renewed Spirit Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780812248074
• ISBN-10: 0812248074
• Artikelnr.: 44467589

Autorenporträt

Douglas Southgate is Emeritus Professor of Agricultural, Environmental, and Developmental Economics at The Ohio State University. Lois Roberts formerly taught Latin American history and culture in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Octopus
Chapter 2. El Pulpo's South American Rivals
Chapter 3. Never a Banana Republic
Chapter 4. Good Governance, for a Change
Chapter 5. South American Entrepreneurs Go Global
Chapter 6. Keeping Up with Technological Advances
Chapter 7. Agrarian Reform, Unionization, and a Policy Tilt Against
Agriculture
Chapter 8. Ecuador's Resurgence
Chapter 9. The Environmental Impact
Chapter 10. Continuing Challenges, New Risks
Chapter 11. Creative Destruction?
Appendix: Ecuadorian Banana Production and Exports, 1961 to 2013
Notes
References
Index
Acknowledgments