Rural poverty in El Salvador: dimensions, trends and causes

Carmen Diana Deere () and M. Diskin

ILO Working Papers from International Labour Organization

Abstract: Working paper on rural area poverty trends in El Salvador in the 1960s and 1970s - covers agricultural income of peasant farmers in relation to farm size and attributes its decline to underemployment, rural migration, decreased land ownership, land tenure changes, scarcity of agricultural credit and low income from nonfarm employment; shows how large scale commercial farming caused landlessness and decline in small farms; notes ineffectiveness of agrarian reforms in the 1980s. Bibliography and statistical tables.

Keywords: rural area; poverty; trend; agricultural income; peasant farmer; farm size.; underemployment.; rural migration; land ownership; land tenure; agricultural credit; low income.; nonfarm employment; commercial farming; landless; small farm; agrarian reform.; statistical table; zone rurale; pauvreté; tendance; zona rural; pobreza; tendencia; revenu agricole; paysan; dimension de la ferme; sous-emploi; migration rurale; propriété foncière; régime foncier; crédit agricole; faible revenu; emploi non agricole; agriculture commerciale; sans-terres; petite exploitation agricole; réforme agraire; tableau statistique; ingreso agrícola; campesino; tamaño de la explotación; subempleo; migración rural; propiedad de la tierra; tenencia de la tierra; crédito agrícola; bajos ingresos; empleo no agrícola; agricultura comercial; sin tierras; minifundio; reforma agraria; cuadros estadísticos (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 59 P. pages
Date: 1984
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Published in World Employment Programme research working paper. WEP 10-6, Rural Employment Policy Research Programme

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