A) Translate pairs of words
inequality - equality unaffected - affected unprepared - prepared inefficient – efficient B) Translate word combinations
неравенство людей, равенство голосов, находящийся под влиянием зла, безучастный к просьбе, речь без подготовки, хорошо подготовленный материал, целесообразное распределение, недейственные меры
Translate from Russian into English. Southeast Asia Модель земельной реформы Японии была заимствована Юго-Восточной Азией, особенно в Тайване, Южной Корее, и Южном Вьетнаме. Целями реформ были: поддержание политического порядка, повышение уровня жизни, а также содействование экономическому развитию. Реформы начались с регулирования аренды, ограничения арендной платы, и введение института письменного договора аренды, после чего жильцы должны были быть преобразованы в собственников. Реформа Тайваня была реализована в период между 1949 и 1953 годов. Вьетнамские реформы был введены в 1955 году. Арендная плата была уменьшена до максимум 25 процентов от стоимости продукта. Филиппины представили программу реформ в 1963 году, которые направлены, прежде всего, на замену доли аренды с договоров аренды и в конечном итоге с правом собственности, и на возрождение сельского хозяйства путем расширения услуг. К середине 1980-х годов, благодаря программе, появилось до 400.000 арендаторов, но экономическая жизнеспособность новых единиц была неопределенной из-за отсутствия дополнительных объектов. Additional texts Latin America a) Except for the early example of Mexico, reform in Latin America has been recent and appears to have come only in response to the threat of social and political instability and mounting international pressures. Reform in Latin America after World War II must be seen against a background of rapidly increasing population and of extreme contrasts between plantation economies and small units; high concentration of land ownership, income, and power and dire poverty; modern farming and relatively backward cultivation methods; and nationalism and extensive foreign ownership of land. In addition, Latin-American society is complicated by its ethnic mixtures and by dependence on staple trade items such as sugar, tobacco, cocoa, coffee, and beef cattle.
Reform in Latin America has reflected the ideologies and objectives of the regime in power. Brazil has had several attempts at reform. The measures have been indirect and relatively mild, the most important being taxation of idle land and large plantations and reclamation and settlement of the Amazon region, with provisions for credit and tenancy protection. The results have been modest, however, largely because of the physical and biological hardships faced by settlers in the tropical Amazon environment. Peru has deviated by creating collective administrations of the nationalized feudal estates. The title resides in the nation, and the estates are run by the Agricultural Societies of Social Interest (SAIS), a mechanism devised to avoid breaking up economically efficient enterprises rather than to modify the tenure institutions.
b) At the other end of the Latin-American spectrum is the Cuban reform that followed the revolution of 1958. Cuba retained private ownership but reduced it substantially in favour of the public sector. As proclaimed a few months before the overthrow of the old regime, the reform aimed at the elimination of latifundia tenure, expropriation of land owned by foreign companies, higher standards of living for the peasantry, and national economic development. It began by setting a ceiling of 30 caballerías (one caballería = 33 acres, or 13.4 hectares) on individual holdings, with a maximum of 100 caballerías if economic operations required such a scale. All foreign-owned land was nationalized. Public land on which rice and cattle were raised was converted into state farms, and the peasants became permanent wage workers on these farms. Sugar plantations were converted into cooperatives to avoid their subdivision into small uneconomic units. Before long the ceiling on individual holdings was lowered to five caballerías, and all such holdings became private family farms. The rest were nationalized, and the expropriated owners were compensated with a pension for life. The reform was supplemented by the organization of national farmer associations; people's stores; credit, housing, and educational facilities; and the production of machinery and fertilizers. In 1963 a major reorganization of state farms took place; they were subdivided on the basis of crop specialization into smaller operational units of about 469 caballerías. Effects of the reform were comprehensive and immediate. The tenure institutions were radically changed in favour of public ownership, while minifundia and tenancies were abolished. Socially and politically, the reform realized the objectives of the reformers. Economically, the government claimed higher yields of sugarcane, vegetables, and fruit, but this claim has been disputed by foreign observers.
c) Chile undertook various reform programs before achieving concrete results. In 1962 a program was enacted to encourage settlement of new land, but only about 1,000 families were settled. A comprehensive reform was introduced in 1965 with three main objectives: to make the agricultural workers owners of the land they had cultivated previously, to increase agricultural and livestock production, and to facilitate social mobility and peasant participation in political life. The Chilean reform was unique in its method of implementation. Once the plantation had been designated for expropriation and the prospective owners selected, they were organized into asentamientos, or settlement groups. The group elected a committee to take charge of settlement. The members cultivated the land as a team for three to five years. Meanwhile they received training and guidance in social participation, decision making, and modern farming. Upon completion of the transition period, the land was divided among those who had shown promise, to be held outright and without restriction. All new owners were obligated to join cooperatives, the form of these being determined by the members. The socialist regime that came into office in 1970 expedited the expropriation process and the creation of settlement groups or cooperative farms under peasant committees. By 1972 all the potential land, which had been in farms larger than 200 acres (80 hectares), had been expropriated and reallocated. The new regime that took over in 1973 decided, however, to privatize the land and reverse much of the reform by returning large areas to the former owners, dissolving the cooperatives, and creating private ownerships in their place. Most of the reverse changes had been completed by 1979. Nevertheless, most of the excess land in farms of more than 200 acres remained in the hands of the reform beneficiaries. Owners of less than 12 acres (five hectares) were hardly affected; those who owned between 12 and 50 acres (five and 20 hectares) benefitted most. In the final analysis, less than 15 percent of the agricultural land was affected by the reform between 1965 and 1979 under three regimes.
UNIT 2. SURVEYING
Unscramble the words acefurs _______________________ orttsidion ________________________
rydaboun ______________________ tigrondua _________________________
litedoothe ______________________ mirfaf ___________________________
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