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The conflict that can occur between centralized economic planning & locally developed economic structures is examined in the case of the Central Amazon region of the Brazilian state of Para. The history of the development of a diversified economy, based primarily on farming, cattle, & extraction of forest products for export, from the time of colonization is recounted. Government programs & lending practices are claimed to have promoted large-scale ecological destruction by creating pastureland for a modernized cattle industry; harmful effects on local class structure & autonomy are also noted. It is urged that local conditions be more carefully considered before development programs are implemented. 3 Tables, 26 References. Modified HA

The Brazilian government's plans to build the Transamazon Highway from the Atlantic coast to the Peruvian border and to settle thousands of landless peasants along it created intense debate before the project's precipitous beginning. Critics of the road "that went from nowhere to no place" denounced it as economic folly, while champions of "national integration" saw it as a crucial step toward the economic and geopolitical unification essential to Brazil's realization of its "great nation" potential and toward alleviating some of its land-tenure concentration (Tamer 1970, Pereira 1971).

An exchange model of power is applied to the operations & outcomes of agricultural programs in the Amazonian Brazilian state of Para. These programs seek to involve small farmers in the market economy, overcoming two tendencies that work against such involvement: return to the caboclo economic mode centered on subsistence, & expulsion by larger enterprises. Ru extension programs must create self-sustained development quickly to be viable, since both local & national economic interests work against them. Government agencies tend to emphasize large-scale capital intensive enterprises. The programs of nine specific agencies involved in development in specific & limited ways are examined. The operation of power at higher levels constantly affects the programs of Ru agencies, making support too problematic to sustain development long enough for the creation of communities that could support it on a continuing basis. W. H. Stoddard.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Growth and Crisis in the Japanese Economy -- 2 Economic Ascent and Hegemony in the Capitalist World-Economy -- 3 The MIDAs-Steel-Ships Nexus -- 4 Creating Japan's Coal-Exporting Peripheries -- 5 Replicating Japan's New Model in Iron Ore -- 6 Transporting Coal and Iron Ore -- 7 The Restructuring of Global Markets and the Future of the Capitalist World-Economy -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.