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The Barbecho crisis, la plaga del banco, and international migration: Structural adjustment in Ecuador’s Southern Amazon

Structural adjustment policies have had devastating effects on segments of Latin America’s population, especially when environmental degradation has added to the squeeze. In Ecuador’s Southern Amazonian region, the withdrawal of public subsidies for agricultural loans coincided with productivity declines related to environmental degradation. As oil wealth in the 1960s gave way to financial crisis, interest … Continue reading The Barbecho crisis, la plaga del banco, and international migration: Structural adjustment in Ecuador’s Southern Amazon