Beschreibung:
The Program of Economic Reactivation for the Benefit of the People, 1980 is the work of 200 people commissioned by the revolutionary Sandinista victors to create a plan for their post-victory world. The Program writers included Chileans with experience during the Allende years in Chile before the 1973 coup. It included people from all walks of Nicaraguan life, from workers to shop owners, from farmers to merchants, from intellectuals to illiterates. It analyzes the production and output of farms and factories to make the crises of employment, production, nutrition and international trade something real and understandable. It proposes solutions based on economic planning, control of prices and taxes, strong government protections for the lowest levels of society, sacrifices for the rich, and redistribution of wealth via enhancing the social services, pensions, medical care, education and literacy for the people.
Contents
List of Tables vi
Forward by Anuar Murrar vii
Editor's Introduction xvii
Introduction 1
Chapter I: Objectives, Problems, Goals and Logic 5
I. 1 General Objectives 5
I. 2 Problems of Reactivation 9
I. 3 Goals 11
I. 4 Determining Factors for Achieving the Goals 11
I. 5 the Logic of the Sandinista Economic Policy 15
Chapter II: The Main Programs for Reactivation 21
II. 1 State Transformation Program 22
II. 2 Farm Production Program 28
II. 3 Program of Production for the Industrial Sector 38
II. 4 Foreign Trade Program 45
II. 5 Programs of Investments 56
II. 6 Fiscal Financial Program 62
II. 7 Foreign Finance Program 73
II. 8 Program for Supplying Basic Consumption Needs 78
II. 9 Employment, Wages and Social Services Program 84
Chapter III: The Dynamics and Tensions of Reactivation 97
III. 1 The Problematic of Reactivation 97
III. 2 The Three Balances of the 1980 Program 102
III. 3 the Contradictions in the 1980 Program 111
Chapter IV: Urgent Measures for the Reactivation 115
IV. 1 National Planning System 115
IV. 2 Investment and Construction Program 116
IV. 3 Farm Program 117
IV. 4 Industrial Program 118
IV. 5 Foreign Trade Program 119
IV. 6 Fiscal Finance Program 120
IV. 7 Supply, Consumption and Price Program 121
IV. 8. Employment, Wages and Social Service Program 122