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Definitions of terms used throughout CountryReports.
This glossary contains 1,144 terms used throughout CountryReports — political, economic, cultural, historical, and geographic terminology referenced in country profiles and articles. Terms are drawn from authoritative sources including the Library of Congress.
- mita
- A compulsory labor system implemented by the Spaniards to work the mines. Required that all able-bodied Indian men present themselves periodically for short periods of paid work in the mines. Was abused by inhumane treatment of the conscripts, arbitrary extensions of the service period, and depletion of individual communities of their adult males.
- Source: Library of Congress
- mita de minas
- A compulsory labor system implemented by the Spaniards to work the mines. Required that all able-bodied native American men present themselves periodically for short periods of paid work in the mines. System led to abuses: inhumane treatment of the conscripts, arbitrary extensions of the service period, and depletion of adult males from individual communities.
- mita system
- A colonial system whereby all taxpayers had to work a prescribed number of days annually in the mita, or labor pool, to run the households of local leaders. Each taxpayer could be called up by his or her curaca (chief) to work on imperial or local projects at any convenient time.
- newly industrializing economics (NIEs)
- A category of cconomies of nations or other political entities that experienced rapid industrial expansion and concomitant growth in their per capita GNP in the 1981s.