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Politics or Markets?:

Essays on Haitian Underdevelopment
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Routledge, Jan 31, 2002 - Business & Economics - 544 pages
Politics or Markets? provides a thorough analysis, from an historical perspective, of how political and economic factors have contributed to the present state of underdevelopment in Haiti.
  

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Contents

THREE
10
CASES OF STATE VERSUS PEASANTRY
200
GOVERNMENT AND INEFFICIENCY IN
222
INNOVATOR IN THE PREDATORY STATE
255
THE STATE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
290
SOME MECHANISMS OF PROTEST IN HAITI
325
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE HAITIAN LABOR
345
SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE COOPERATIVE
370
HAITIAN COFFEE MARKETING REVISITED 110
110
THE STRUCTURE OF LANDOWNERSHIP IN HAITI
140
The political economy of underdevelopment
155
CASES OF STATE VERSUS PEASANTRY 200
200
GOVERNMENT AND INEFFICIENCY IN
222
INNOVATOR IN THE PREDATORY STATE 255
255
THE STATE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
290
SOME MECHANISMS OF PROTEST IN HAITI
325

List of figures xi
xi
INTRODUCTION 1
1
THREE
10
INFORMAL
18
THE ROOTS OF HAITIAN UNDERDEVELOPMENT 25
25
SOME RECENT
46
INTERPRETATIONS OF HAITI OLD AND NEW62
62
PATTERNS AND PROSPECTS OF HAITIAN
75
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE HAITIAN LABOR
345
SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE COOPERATIVE
370
INITIATIVE IN A WELFARELESS STATE 384
384
THE HAITIAN ECONOMY FACING THE 1990s 401
401
Notes 420
420
References 472
472
Index 509
509
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Politics or Markets?: Essays on Haitian Underdevelopment
Politics or Markets?: Essays on Haitian Underdevelopment
Mats Lundahl
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About the author (2002)

Mats Lundahl is Professor of Development Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics.

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TitlePolitics or Markets?: Essays on Haitian Underdevelopment
AuthorMats Lundahl
PublisherRoutledge, 2002
ISBN0203160096, 9780203160091
Length544 pages
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