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A company cannot sell products to a people who have no money, and that is the situation in China today. It is also the situation in Central America, but Central America would be much more responsive to the entry of outside companies offering funds for development and providing jobs for the people than is China. Helping develop the society, and especially including more women in the process, could also help with the difficult task of reducing the stranglehold some authoritarian regimes still have. Those regimes might be resistant, but they are also eager to have external investment that would benefit them. Business has to make certain that investment also benefits the people and contributes to change in a positive direction.
One of the women who helped bring the plight of women in Central America to light was Rigoberto Menchu, who wrote her own account of working in the coffee fields and of the conditions that prevailed there. Her work has been followed up by many other women, including many of the nuns who have fought back against the injustices of certain regimes and whom have suffered greatly for it. Zoilamerica Narvaez was a prominent leader of the women's movement in Nicaragua in the 1980s. A number of women have risen to prominence...
" From WID to GAD: conceptual shifts in the women and development discourse." United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (1 Feb 1995). July 11, 2007. (http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BCCF9/httpNetITFramePDF-ReadForm&parentunid=D9C3FCA78D3DB32E80256B67005B6AB5&parentdoctype=paper&netitpath=80256B3C005BCCF9/(httpAuxPages)/D9C3FCA78D3DB32E80256B67005B6AB5/$file/opb1.pdf.
Sainz, Juan Pablo Perez. From the Finca to the Maquila: Labor and Capitalist Development in Central America. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1999.
Staudt, Kathleen. Women, International Development, and Politics: The Bureaucratic Mire. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997.
A ik, Steven. "Historical perspectives on Latin American underdevelopment." The History Teacher (August 1987), 545-559.
Women in Development: Achieving Results (2006, December 1). USAID Women in Development. (1 Dec 2006). July 11, 2007. http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/cross-cutting_programs/wid/.
Works Cited
Razavi, Shahrashoub and Carol Miller. " From WID to GAD: conceptual shifts in the women and development discourse." United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (1 Feb 1995). July 11, 2007. (http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BCCF9/httpNetITFramePDF-ReadForm&parentunid=D9C3FCA78D3DB32E80256B67005B6AB5&parentdoctype=paper&netitpath=80256B3C005BCCF9/(httpAuxPages)/D9C3FCA78D3DB32E80256B67005B6AB5/$file/opb1.pdf.
Sainz, Juan Pablo Perez. From the Finca to the Maquila: Labor and Capitalist Development in Central America. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1999.
Staudt, Kathleen. Women, International Development, and Politics: The Bureaucratic Mire. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997.
A ik, Steven. "Historical perspectives on Latin American underdevelopment." The History Teacher (August 1987), 545-559.
Women in Development: Achieving Results (2006, December 1). USAID Women in Development. (1 Dec 2006). July 11, 2007. http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/cross-cutting_programs/wid/.
Food History Of Central American Cuisine What is the geographical location of Central America and why it has an effect on the Central America cuisine? (i.e., what is the weather condition in Central America and does that play an affect as to why they eat the foods they eat and what foods do they eat mostly). The geographical location of Central America has just about everything to do with the cuisine of
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