Land Reform in Developing Countries : Property Rights and Property Wrongs

ISBN-13: 9780415096676 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 384 str.

Michael Lipton

Opis

Redistributing land rights is a tricky subject and one that easily becomes controversial as recent experience has shown. This new book calmly examines the strengths and weaknesses of different forms of land redistribution and should be warmly welcomed by students, researchers and field workers in the area of development economics.

Spis treści

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?

O autorze

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.