Based on extensive data for land ownership, income distribution, and agricultural production, this book assesses Peru's experience with development planning since 1950 and discusses efforts to improve the standard of living of its rural population through changes in agrarian structure. .

Of kowa-Peru program emphasizing strengths and weaknesses with implications for future U.S. tecnical assistance programs. Agrarian reform in Peru: ICAC-2226 (1961-1962). Agrarian reform, agricultural planning and economic development in Peru: contract AID/1a/2/62-31/68). Agricultural sector analysis and planning contract aid/la-592 (01/1/69-6/30/74). Sector analysis and planning: contract aid/la-c-1069 (july 1, 1974-june 30, 1977, extended to october, 1, 1980).

Peru's self-proclaimed "revolution"—surprisingly extensive reforms initiated by the military government—has aroused great interest all over Latin America and the Third World. This book is the first systematic and comprehensive attempt to appraise Peru's current experiment in both national and regional perspective. It compares recent innovative approaches to Peru's problems with the methods used by earlier regimes, providing original and stimulating interpretations of contemporary Peru from the viewpoints of political science, sociology, history, economics, and education. Among the issues considered are the military regime's policies regarding income distribution, foreign investment, education, urbanization, worker-management relations, and land reform. Contributors: Abraham F. Lowenthal, Julio Cotler, Richard Webb, David Collier, Susan Bourque and Scott Palmer, Colin Harding, Robert Drysdale and Robert Myers, Shane Hunt, Peter T. Knight, Jane Jaquette. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Monograph on agricultural policies, bureaucracy and the agrarian reform programme of the military government in Peru - reviews agrarian structure in comparative political systems, effect of international borrowing on irrigation systems, the agrarian court system, creation of interest groups and rural worker organizations, internal state conflicts, agricultural cooperatives, public administration, etc., and makes comparison of agrarian reforms in Asia and Latin America. Bibliography pp. 299 to 321.