REU2006: Globalization and Sustainable Development in Latin America
Reading Materials

Map of Yucatán
Map of study area


All Participants


1. Babbie, E. 1992. The Practice of Social Research. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing.

2. Biles, J.J. 2006. Globalization of Food Retailing and the Consequences of Wal-Martization in Mexico, in S. Brunn, ed., Wal-Mart World: The World's Biggest Corporation in the Global Economy. New York: Routledge, pp. 347-359.

3. Biles, J.J. et al. Walmartization of Food Retailing in Mexico: Challenges and Opportunities for Small-scale Agricultural Producers. Environment and Planning A (under review).

4. Casley, D.J. and K. Kumar. 1988. The Collection, Analysis, and Use of Monitoring and Evaluation Data. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press  (Chapters 1 and 2).

5. Clarke, C. and D. Howard. 1999. Cities, Capitalism and Neoliberalism, in R.N. Gwynne and C. Kay, eds., Latin America Transformed: Globalization and Modernity. London: Arnold, pp. 305-325.

6. Robison, L., M.E. Siles and A.A. Schmid. 2002. Social Capital and Poverty Reduction; Toward a Mature Paradigm. MSU Agricultural Economics Report No. 614. Internet address: http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/pdf_view.pl?paperid=4829&ftype=.pdf.

7. Schutt, R.K. 2001. Investigating the Social World: The Process and Practice of Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.

8. Wilson, E.M. 1980. Physical Geography of the Yucatan Peninsula, in E.H. Moseley and E.D. Terry, eds., Yucatan: A World Apart. Birmingham: University of Alabama Press.

9. Woolcock, M. 2001. The Place of Social Capital in Understanding Social and Economic Outcomes, in J.F. Helliwell, ed., The Contribution of Human and Social Capital to Sustained Economic Growth and Well-Being. International Symposium Report. Human Resources Development Canada and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Hull, Quebec, pp. 65-88


Housing Deprivation

10. Bazant, J. 2003. Viviendas Progresivas: Contrucción de Vivienda por Familias de Bajos Ingresos. Mexico City: Editorial Trillas.

11. Consejo Nacional de Población. 2002. Indice de Marginación Urbana. Mexico City: CONAPO. Internet address: http://www.conapo.gob.mx/publicaciones/indice_urb.htm.

12. Gilbert, A. 1998. The Latin American City. London: Latin America Bureau (Chapters 4 and 5) .

13. Green, D. 1997. Faces of Latin America. London: Latin American Research Bureau (Chapter 4).

14. Swyngedouw, E. 1995. The Contradictions of Urban Water Provision: A Study of Guayaquil, Ecuador. Third World Planning Review 17, 4, 387-407.


Formal/Informal Economies

15. Biles, J.J. Globalization and Informality in Mexico: Evidence from Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Sectors. Journal of Latin American Geography (under review).

16. Biles, J.J. 2005. Globalization of Banking and Local Access to Financial Resources: A Case Study from Southeastern Mexico. The Industrial Geographer 2, 2, 159-173.

17. Biles, J.J. 2004. Export-oriented Industrialization and Regional Development: A Case Study of Maquiladora Production in Yucatán, Mexico, Regional Studies 38, 5, 517-532.

18. Isard, W. et al. 1998. Methods of Interregional and Regional Analysis. Aldershot: Ashgate (Chapters 3 and 7).

19. Maloney, W.F. 2004. Informality Revisited. World Development 32, 7, 1159-1178.

20. Munroe, D.K. and J.J. Biles. 2005. Regional Science, in K. Kempf-Leonard, ed., The Encyclopedia of Social Measurement. San Diego: Academic Press (vol. 3, pp. 325-335).

21. Portes, A. and R. Schauffler. 1993. Competing Perspectives on the Latin American Informal Sector. Population and Development Review 19, 1, 33-60.

22. Sadoulet, E. and A. DeJanvry. 1995. Quantitative Development Policy Analysis. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (Chapter 10).

23. Thomas, J.J 1995. Surviving in the City: The Urban Informal Sector in Latin America. London: Pluto Press.

24. Trejo, J. 2005. La Ocupación en el Sector Informal, 1995-2003. Taller 12: Medición y Characterización del Empleo en las Encuestas de Hogares. Economic Comission for Latin America and the Caribbean, pp. 127-156.