Author Description

About the Author Wim Pelupessy is Lecturer in Development Economics with the Faculty of Economic Sciences of Tilburg University, The Netherlands. Reurd Ruben is Lecturer in Development Economics at the Department of Economics and Management of Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands. Product Description Macroeconomic adjustment and sectoral reforms have strongly modified the framework for rural development in Central America. Local producers have only received marginal benefits from the liberalization of markets and the privatization of financial and commercial services.This book offers a structural analysis of agrarian policies in Central America and their impact on production conditions and farmers' welfare. Segmentation of rural factor and product markets and institutional failures have imposed severe constraints on the effectiveness of the applied policy instruments.