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Yucatán
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OECD Territorial Reviews
The Mexican state of Yucatán, with its strategically important location near the United States, Central America and the Caribbean, is one of the most dynamic regions in the OECD. Yucatán is also a land of contrasts. It is a lagging but growing region, offering a high quality of life and vast natural resources, yet suffering from problems of sustainability. Its tourism attractions are located in rural areas that do not benefit from them. It has both state and Peninsula medical services, but its health services coverage is uneven. Yucatan is a centre for higher education in the Peninsula, yet its graduates do not find jobs. It has a number of marginalised communities in fragmented administra...
Yucatan
Inhalt: Heft und Faltblatt: Discover the new frontier for business ; Karte; Blätter: Contacts, Industrial parks, Infrastructure & support services, Our human resources, Quality of life; Zeitschrift: Yucatan, Agosto 96; Heft: Economic overview of the state Yucatan, Mexico, your partner for growth).
Poverty Or Development
This book offers a unique look at world inequality, by comparing the development problems and prospects of these two regions in the context of global restructuring and NAFTA.
Land, Labor & Capital in Modern Yucatán
An interdisciplinary collection of articles grouped into sections on the erosion of traditional society--the early expansion of commercial agriculture and the Mayan response; forging the new order--commercial agriculture and export dependency; and revolutionary challenges to the plantation regime. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Making of a Market
During the nineteenth century, Yucat&án moved effectively from its colonial past into modernity, transforming from a cattle-ranching and subsistence-farming economy to a booming export-oriented agricultural economy. Yucat&án and its economy grew in response to increasing demand from the United States for henequen, the local cordage fiber. This henequen boom has often been seen as another regional and historical example of overdependence on foreign markets and extortionary local elites. In The Making of a Market, Juliette Levy argues instead that local social and economic dynamics are the root of the region&’s development. She shows how credit markets contributed to the boom before banks ...
