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The agreement between the FARC-EP insurgency and the Colombian Government includes, as part of the broad peace agreement, democratic expansion and new ways of
doing politics as part of the transition from war to peace, that is the essence of the Agreement to strengthen pluralism that recognizes all visions and interests in society and, more importantly, guarantees participation, inclusion and qualification for social movements and political parties.

The purpose of this piece is to explore how we might go about understanding the political conditions for poverty alleviation via agrarian reform. It argues that the traditional conceptualizations of agrarian reform & its politics are too limiting. The traditional economic focus on the intersection of landed rights, agriculture, & poverty needs to be broadened to incorporate technological change enabled by the biological revolution & the importance of ecological systems that support both agriculture & survival strategies of the poor. The traditional political focus on agrarian classes needs to incorporate new social forces interested in the correlates of agrarian inequality & the social correlates of land-based inequality -- "new social movements" & their domestic & international allies. A policy agenda for pro-poor reform must retain elements of the venerable core of the agrarian project & yet recognize the potential of larger coalitions for the poor. These elements include environmental integrity & regeneration, women's rights, human rights, cultural survival, & democratization. This analysis is not meant to replace class with postmodernist identity politics, but rather, to emphasize the reality of new coalitional possibilities. 135 References. Adapted from the source document.

From the early nineties, India's economic growth has accelerated, revealing several critical aspects, from the persistent consequences of an agrarian reform implemented without considering the quality of its institutions or the dynamic links between computer science & the domestic market, to the excessive weight services have had in the economy's long-term reactivation. Ancient tasks -- overcoming secular caste segmentation in the people's conscience -- mixed with more recent ones, such as creating a dozen million jobs a year for the next decades, in order to ensure the social stability that its economic growth requires. Adapted from the source document.

Kay is very well thought of by Latin Americans; his theoretical works & case studies have contributed much to a better understanding of the not always easy field of economic ideas & development in Latin America. In this interview, he responds to questions on such topic as the influences on his choice of a career in economics; his experiences in Latin America, particularly in Chile, first at the time Allende was elected & again later with the Center for Socioeconomic Studies (CESO) & the U of Chile; his studies & work in GB; his relationship with Andre Gunder Frank; & his many books on agrarian reform, the transition to socialism, economic development, & political economics in Latin America. Adapted from the source document.

This paper is a preliminary attempt to respond to the challenge of "adding value" to the politics of development, prepared for the World Bank's 2000/1 World Development Report. The authors explore the scope & limits of a political capabilities approach by assessing the forty-year-long process of grassroots collective action that emerged between the Bolivian Agrarian reform & the most recent Popular Participation reform. A focus on political capabilities is intended to address what a long-term & political approach could add to our understanding of pro-poor policy making. To conclude, the authors consider some of the implications of a political capabilities approach in the context of current thinking on poverty. 1 Reference. Adapted from the source document.

An excerpt from A. B. Aguilar Plata's, R. Alvarez's, & R. Buentello's Marco de Referencia para el Estudio de la Prensa Diaria de la Ciudad de Mexico ([Reference Point for the Study of the Daily Press in Mexico City], Dissertation, National Autonomous University of Mexico, 1974). The morphological aspects (section formats, space devoted to different subjects, & distribution of contents over available space) & contents of 9 Mexico City dailies (5 issues each) are analyzed. Characteristics of each paper are traced by front (news), internal, & editorial sections; the wire services used by each are listed. On the whole, none of the papers presents a total panorama of events; each selects information from a particular viewpoint or stresses particular aspects of the news. Over 90% of the information presented is news, of which a high percent is obtained from foreign sources (wire services). The predominant themes of national interest are: guerrillas, education reform, foreign debts, agrarian reform, indigenism, political parties, & student problems at Mexican universities. 9 Tables. S. Whittle.

The workers' movement in Bolivia-its origins, history, political goals, & activities-is discussed. The movement's nucleus is the Federation of Mine Workers of Bolivia, which in 1946 declared the revolutionary aims of the proletariat. These aims are also pursued by the Bolivian Workers' Center, which has been working toward an alliance of revolutionary forces. The popular uprising of 1952 & the government's repressive measures are described. The bourgeois agrarian reform of 1953 is seen as too limited & defective to satisfy populist demands. The military coup d'etat by General Banzer opened the way for a resurgence of rightist movements & more repression on the left. The workers' movement now has no legal power, although it has real power in representing the masses. The government's strategy is now directed toward dispersement. A 1975 declaration by the Executive Committee of the Bolivian Workers' Center, demanding a general amnesty for its imprisoned & exiled leaders, is reprinted. S. Whittle.

The struggle for land is considered within the framework of the Mexican government's agrarian policy. The policies of Presidents Luis Echeverria & Jose Lopez Portillo are contrasted, & the goals, geographic distribution, & regionalization of land reform movements are discussed. 4 Tables, 3 Graphs, 1 Map, 2 Appendixes. S. Karganovic

En este artículo se explora la importancia del análisis comparativo como instrumento de conocimiento de la realidad latinoamericana, a partir de la identificación de algunos ejes problemáticos que durante el siglo XIX y comienzos del XX predominaron en el pensamiento sociopolítico de América Latina. Específicamente, se centra la atención en la segunda mitad del siglo pasado cuando, desde una perspectiva histórica y sociológica, estos ejes aparecerán reformulados en la obra de autores como Sergio Bagú, Antonio García, y Fernando H. Cardoso, a través de conceptos como "capitalismo comercial", "situaciones de dependencia" y "reforma agraria".

The popular movements are analysed in Mexico from 1968 to 2003: objective of fight - situated specially in around at real exercise of the liberty of organization & by improvement of the conditions of life of the classes dominated -- , more representative forms of organization -- influence of the popular fights in the reform of the private states of the State. It is presented that the reform of the State only has been carried out in the electoral land & of parties, but not in the agrarian, labour, native, one. It is concluded that the political state & the form of State conserve, in the essential thing, the structures that acquired along the century XX. 25 References. Adapted from the source document.