Agenda 2009 del desarrollo rural en Bolivia
 *Oscar Bazoberry Chali
 
 
El año 2009 se inició para Bolivia  con el estreno de Constitución Política del Estado, habiendo sido ésta votada el 25 de enero y promulgada el nueve de febrero. La nueva Constitución incorpora un título denominado Desarrollo Rural Integral Sustentable.

 
Lo agropolitano: vision desde España
Jaime Izquierdo Vallina*

En la década de los setenta del pasado siglo XX, y más claramente en la siguiente, se hizo patente en Europa el escepticismo sobre la eficacia de los instrumentos para el diseño de las políticas de desarrollo regional.

Desarrollo rural y descentralización: Relación Virtuosa
Carmen Beatriz Ruiz*

Bosques para el desarrollo: el debate en la Amazonía
Pablo Pacheco *

Hasta hace un tiempo atrás se consideraba pertinente hablar de un “sector forestal”, el que estaba fuertemente relacionado al aprovechamiento de madera, y se concebían los problemas de su desarrollo de manera independiente a los otros sectores. No obstante, hemos aprendido de manera gradual que posiblemente no existe un sector forestal y que lo forestal es más bien un reflejo de la influencia de procesos políticos, económicos y sociales más amplios puesto que los otros “sectores” tienen una influencia decisiva sobre los bosques (Kaimowitz and Angelsen 1999).

 Sudamérica y desarrollo rural el 2009
 Oscar Bazoberry Chali[*]
El año 2008, a diferencia de los años anteriores, nos dejó distintas constataciones para tomar en cuenta.

Brazil grew 2.4 percent per year on average in the last 25 years-somewhat less than Latin America, a good deal less than the world, far less than the emerging countries of Asia in the same period, and indeed far less than Brazil itself in previous decades. If anything stands out favorably in recent Brazilian experience, it is not growth but stabilization and the successful opening of the economy. The purpose of this paper is more modest.

All countries have a formal economy and an informal economy. But, on average, in developing countries the relative size of the informal sector is considerably larger than in developed countries. This paper argues that this has important implications for housing policy in developing countries. That most poor households derive their income from informal employment effectively precludes income-contingent transfers as a method of redistribution.

This paper analyzes the role of the leadership in the economic growth in Rwanda, a country that was seriously affected by civil war and the 1994 genocide. It appears that the will and the clear vision of the leadership in Rwanda were one of the central pillars of the very good economic and social performances in Rwanda. This is particularly important because the country has almost no natural resources and the economy and its fundamentals were completely destroyed by the 1994 genocide.

Since President Soeharto stepped down, decentralization has offered a better governance system for this nation of more than 220 million people of varied ethnic groups spread over more than 15,000 islands. Despite its potential, implementation of decentralization has been riddled with unexpected problems. Decentralization turned out to have created problems, ranging from conflicts among people who refused regional fragmentation, conflicts between newly-created districts and the original, larger district from which they were created, and between local and central government.