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Annotation Contents Acknowledgments Acronyms 1. Rural Progress or Rural Decay? An Overview of the Issues and the Case Studies Liisa L. NorthPart I: Theoretical Perspectives2. Problems of Contemporary Development: Neoliberalism and its Consequences Louis Lefeber3. Exploring the Links between Global Trade, Industrial Agriculture, and Rural Underdevelopment Ricardo GrinspunPart II: Policy Choices, Policy Impacts: Ecuador in Comparative Perspective4. Agriculture and Rural Development: A Critique of the Establishmentarian Policies in Ecuador Louis Lefeber5. Endogenous Peasant Responses to Structural Adjustment: Ecuador in Comparative Andean Perspective Luciano Martinez6. Rural Land Conflicts and Human Rights Violations in Ecuador Liisa L. North, Wade A. Kit, and Robert B. KoepPart III. Case Studies from the Ecuadorian Highlands7. Agrarian Capitalism and Communal Institutional Spaces: Chimborazo after the Land Reform Tanya Kororkin8. The Contradictions of Rural Development NGOs: The Trajectory of the Fondo Ecuatoriano Populonum Progressio in Chimborazo Victor Breton Solo de Zaldivar9. Municipal Democratization and Rural Development in Highland Ecuador John D. Cameron10. Externally Induced Rural Diversification: the Communitarian Experience of Salinas Liisa L. North11. Endogenous Rural Diversification: Family Textile Enterprises in Pelileo Liisa L. North Bibliography About the Contributors Index.