Dairy Joint Ventures in South Africa’s Land and Agrarian Reform Programme: Who Benefits?

Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa Land use and livelihoods

Whither agrarian reform in South Africa?

Workshop on Community Perspectives on Land and Agrarian Reform (CPLAR) in South Africa

ing issues from the overall programme and perspective, there appear to be significant moments of c~!_l.se~l!_S between_ the ANC and_ Wo.rld_Bank particularly with regard to the scale, scope and general direction of the land reform process in South Africa. There are, however, three main disagreements between the ANC and the World Bank. The first centres on th~motivation for land reform. Whilst t...

Medicare reform: who pays and who benefits?

As Medicare's share of federal spending and gross domestic product (GDP) rises, the program may have increasingly important consequences not only for the health of Americans but also for their net income and financial well-being. We use incidence analysis to study payments and benefits in Medicare to various generations and income groups. We find that Medicare actually provides larger net dolla...

Agrarian reform and the ‘two economies’: transforming South Africa’s countryside

This chapter focuses on the rural dimensions of the ‘two economies’ debate, and in particular on the question of what contribution land and agrarian reform can make to reducing inequality and addressing the structural nature of rural poverty in post-apartheid South Africa. It suggests that the problem needs to be conceptualised in terms of an ‘agrarian question of the dispossessed’, that can on...