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Land Reform in Developing Countries Property Rights and Property Wrongs
By Michael Lipton
Copyright 2009
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Land reforms are laws that are intended, and likely, to cut poverty by raising the poor’s share of land rights. That raises questions about property rights as old as moral philosophy, and issues of efficiency and fairness that dominate policy from Bolivia to Nepal. Classic reforms directly transfer land from rich to poor. However, much else has been marketed as land reform: the restriction of... Read more
Introducing Land Reform 1. Goals 2. Output, Efficiency and Growth 3. Land Reforms: The Types, and the Classic Paradigm 4. Tenurialism: Tenancy Reform, Titling, Patrialisation 5. The Terrible Detour: Collectivisation and Decollectivisation 6. Alternatives, Complements, Diversions, ‘New Wave’ Land Reform 7. The Death of Land Reform?
Biography
Michael Lipton has worked since 1960 as a development economist. He was based for 25 years at the Institute of Development Studies, for three years directed the Sussex University Poverty Research Unit, and remains research professor at Sussex.
