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Article: Peasants in Distress: Poverty and Underdevelopment in the Dominican Republic.
- Article from:
- Journal of Development Studies
- Article date:
- April 1, 1992
- Author:
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Not many books are published about the Dominican Republic in the English language. While neighbouring Haiti is trampled by jounalists and academics, the Dominican Republic is relatively understudied. We may, therefore, be happy that a monograph about the actual situation in the country has been published. The writer - a Dominican economist who received her Ph.D. in Sweden - sets herself the task of analysing the distorted market relations in the Dominican Republic and the mass poverty which is their consequence, above all in the countryside. In ten chapters, she presents data about the employment problem, the imperfect market and the unequal access to land and credit. She ...