Una mirada de largo Plazo a la Economía

Campesina en los Andes

Javier Escobal

GRADE

Abstract
The study takes the exceptional opportunity of being able to revisit two zones
considered as the “traditional region” and the “modern region” in several of the
studies about peasant economics in the rural sierra that were published on the
early Eighties. We show how public policies and changes in the economic and
institutional structure that those public policies generated affected the way how
the peasant economy modified the way it connected itself to the labor, output
and factor markets. The study pretends to use this long term analysis to prompt
discussion on how to design better programs that may improve the capacity of
rural producers to face local, regional and national markets.