The Rural Family Economic Unit (Spanish acronym: UEFC)
general and dynamic theoretical conceptualization in the Colombian context
Keywords:
Peasant production, production method, explicit costs, implicit costs, social order, rural development, territory, rationality, economic dynamicsAbstract
The peasant production has been an objective of government policies during more than 5 decades. However, there is a great government ignorance concerning to dynamics and rationality of this productive sector. In this sense, there is a great difference between capitalistic production and peasant production. But, this matter has been ignored by the government, so that, the economical policies applied to peasant development has always failed. It is necessary to make new researches in order to get a better knowledge about peasant dynamic due to the present diagnosis is wrong. In the peasant production does not work the concept of earning and some expenses are not taken in to account. Besides, to improve the peasants life level implies to go further of economical aspects and it is necessary an integral vision, so that it is required to apply strategies directed to the development of the whole territory (countryside). Accordingly, the government policies, must take into account not only the economical matters, but some other elements as security, ways of communication and transport, public services, environment protection and strategies of social participation, association and organization.
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