The Role of Institutions in Rural Territories that have Undergone Land Reform
Alexandro Schejtman and Julio Berdegué have insightfully proposed that rural territorial development be viewed as the transformation of a rural area's institutional and productive processes with poverty reduction as an aim. Transforming productive processes in this context means making local activities competitive in increasingly open markets, while changing formal and informal rules ('institutions') that tend to reproduce conditions under which poor people are prevented from participating in and benefiting from such a transformation. This paper examines the complex relationships between productive transformation and institutional realities, focusing on two particular territories: Daule and Cayambe in Ecuador.
Manuel Chriboga Vega with support from Carol Chehab (RIMISP), 2007
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