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The Land Question in Central America

The Land Question in Central America 1985, p, 11, Table 11; (10) Average family size is from U.S. Bureau of the Census, State and Metropolitan Area Data Book, 1986, p. 511; and per capiU income is from U.S. Bureau of the Census, ibid., p. 558. 28, A more common indicator of the availability of work for the poor—the percent of the workforce in manufacturing—was statistically insignificant when included in our equations. 29, Cogan, op. cit., emphasizes the decline in low paying agricultural jobs in the South as a major reason for declines in Black teenage employment from 1950 to 1970. 30, In McLanahan et ai, p. 10. 31 Rebecca M. Blank, "Where is the Money Coming From? Recent Changes in Income Patterns," Census Analysis Workshop: Income and Poverty, Data and Trends, Madison, Wis., 1986. THE LAND QUESTION continues to dominate the politics and economics of Central America to an extent which is no longer possible in South America. The own- ership and distribution of land is the primary political issue in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, still of major importance in Nicaragua after the fall of Somoza, and even key in the region's most developed country, Costa Rica. Eco- nomic development in the region, rather http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Economics and Sociology Wiley

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10.1111/j.1536-7150.1988.tb02064.x
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1985, p, 11, Table 11; (10) Average family size is from U.S. Bureau of the Census, State and Metropolitan Area Data Book, 1986, p. 511; and per capiU income is from U.S. Bureau of the Census, ibid., p. 558. 28, A more common indicator of the availability of work for the poor—the percent of the workforce in manufacturing—was statistically insignificant when included in our equations. 29, Cogan, op. cit., emphasizes the decline in low paying agricultural jobs in the South as a major reason for declines in Black teenage employment from 1950 to 1970. 30, In McLanahan et ai, p. 10. 31 Rebecca M. Blank, "Where is the Money Coming From? Recent Changes in Income Patterns," Census Analysis Workshop: Income and Poverty, Data and Trends, Madison, Wis., 1986. THE LAND QUESTION continues to dominate the politics and economics of Central America to an extent which is no longer possible in South America. The own- ership and distribution of land is the primary political issue in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, still of major importance in Nicaragua after the fall of Somoza, and even key in the region's most developed country, Costa Rica. Eco- nomic development in the region, rather

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Published: Jan 1, 1988

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