• Medientyp: E-Book
  • Titel: Bolivia and Coca : A Study in Dependency
  • Enthält: Frontmatter
    Contents
    List of Tables and Figures
    Foreword
    Acknowledgments
    Maps of South America, Bolivia, and the Chapare
    1 The Rise of Coca
    The Coca Boom
    The Income from Coca
    2 From Coca to Cocaine
    Coca Farmers, Rural Elites, and Paste Production
    From Paste to Cocaine
    3 The Coca-Cocaine Economy
    Production and Value
    Employment
    Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia
    4 The Costs and Benefits
    The Economic Effects
    Financial Speculation
    Food Production
    The Impact on the Environment
    Consumption
    Corruption
    5 Policies to Curb the Drug Trade
    Legislation
    Interdiction
    Eradication
    Military Options
    6 Alternative Development
    Introduction
    Aid for Alternative Development
    The Chapare Regional Development Project
    Alternative Crops
    Associated High Valleys Project
    Credit Policy
    The United Nations Projects
    Further Observations
    7 Conclusions
    Notes
    Glossary of Acronyms
    Bibliography
    Index
    About the Book and Author
    About the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) and the United Nations University (UNU)
  • Beteiligte: Painter, James [VerfasserIn]
  • Erschienen: Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2023
  • Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (175 p.)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1515/9781685858964
  • ISBN: 9781685858964
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  • Schlagwörter: POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American
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  • Anmerkungen: In English
  • Beschreibung: Painter lucidly describes Bolivia's coca boom, the development of its cocaine industry, and the catastrophic consequences of both
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