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Land Reform in Developing Countries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 473

Land Reform in Developing Countries

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-06-24
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  • Publisher: Routledge

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 tenancy, but also its de-restriction; collectivisation, but also de-collectivisation; land consolidation, but also land division. In 1955-2000, genuine land reform affected over a billion people, and almost as many hectares. Is land reform still alive, for example in Bolivia, South Africa and Nepal? O...

Urban Bias and Rural Poverty
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 15

Urban Bias and Rural Poverty

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1979
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Poor and the Poorest
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 86

The Poor and the Poorest

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1988
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Many governments in developing countries, donors, and nongovernmental organizations have been trying to use their resources in ways that steer the benefits towards poor people. Sharp discontinuities exist between poor and ultra-poor, but not between poor and non-poor. These differences, especially in regard to labor-market and demographic behaviors and responses, are related to income linked nutritional risks incurred, often lifelong, by ultra-poor households only. This does not prove that policies, aimed at raising productivity among the poor, do not help the ultra-poor, but it does strongly suggest that the ultra-poor may require different policies, in particular "calories and health first, " if they are to be able to raise their productivity.

Poverty and Policy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 126

Poverty and Policy

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Why Poor People Stay Poor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 476

Why Poor People Stay Poor

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1977
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Successes in Anti-poverty
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 234

Successes in Anti-poverty

This book explores successful efforts to alleviate poverty, and asks whether any of the features of these policies or projects can be imported into environments where poverty has not yet declined significantly.

The Role of the World Bank in Agricultural Development in the 1990s
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 120

The Role of the World Bank in Agricultural Development in the 1990s

Bank lending for agriculture and rural development from the 1970s to the 1980s: will the decline continue? Anticipating the challenges of the 1990s. Regional variations.

Assessing Economic Performance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 286

Assessing Economic Performance

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1968
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  • Publisher: Unknown

January 1983

The Two-move Chess Problem; by John M. Rice, Michael Lipton, Barry P. Barnes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 206
Attacking Undernutrition and Poverty
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 48

Attacking Undernutrition and Poverty

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1989
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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