Agricultural development through agrarian reform in Guyana

Albania's radical agrarian reform.

The agrarian reform in Albania included free distribution of land to rural households and the complete break up of the former collective and state farms. These key features of the Albanian reform are in sharp contrast with other Central and Eastern European countries. Our paper explains the choice of the Albanian agricultural privatization and land reform process and the radical decollectivizat...

Whither agrarian reform in South Africa?

The Public Agricultural Extension System in China: Development and Reform

One of the major ideological debates in development centers on whether the provision of local public goods in developing countries should be made financially self-sustaining, as opposed to relying on international donors or national governments. Should external donors indefinitely fund activities that generate positive externalities, or can they be most effective by establishing institutions th...

Explaining Agricultural and Agrarian Policies in Developing Countries

Explaining Agricultural What explains differences in agricultural and agrarian and Agrarian Policies policies across couJntries and in Developing Countries over time? Why do countries in Developing Countries dpalniM ozc adopt, and maintain, policy regimes that reduce efficiency Hans P. Binswanger and increase rural poverty? Klaus Deininger What are the conditions for countries to initiate equit...

Why East Asia overtook Latin America: agrarian reform, industrialisation and development

Scholars and policy makers have long debated the causes of the spectacular economic success achieved by the East Asian newly industrialisin g countries (NICs) as well as the lessons that other developing countries can learn from this development experience. Latin America started to industrialise many decades before the East Asian NICs and yet was quickly overtaken by them in the last few decade...