As a component of a series of studies of childhood diarrhoea in rural Nicaragua, lay knowledge regarding the condition and its appropriate management has been investigated through semistructured interviews with 70 mothers. These data have been combined with information from focus group...

"This book covers the performance of the agricultural sector during the Gaviria Administration, and purports to offer a dispassionate account of the extent to which Gaviria's economic policy of opening markets to globalization led to the sector's 1992 crisis. Production statistics and...