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The great curse

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"Land is the key input for economies in the earliest stages of development, when seventy-five percent to ninety percent of the labor force is engaged in agriculture. Concentration of land ownership has been a common, and usually quite damaging, feature of most societies throughout history as both the cause and the result of access to power. Highly unequal control of land typically implies severe inequality of income and welfare, as well. Landlessness has been at the root of many of the world's most serious and persistent problems, including severe exploitation and the deprivation of political rights and basic human needs. Historically, the motivation for many revolutions has been access to land. This volume reviews the land reform experiences of multiple countries during the twentieth century. The experiences l covered llustrate the widespread need for reform, the great difficulties facing major changes, and the extreme cost of failure in delicate political moments. Looking ahead, the biggest challenge will be to avoid the injustices and inequality that have accompanied land concentration in the past"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Section I. The History and Microeconomics of Land Concentration -- Land concentration: historical origins, socio-economic effects, political logic, and surrounding narratives -- Land concentration in early modern European development and its intellectual legacy -- Economic and the Welfare Impacts of Farm Size and Tenure -- Section II. The mixed record of twentieth century attempts at land reform -- Assessing the success of land reforms -- Land Reform under Communist regimes -- Land reform under capitalist regimes in 20th Century Latin America: Varying degrees of failure -- Twentieth Century Land Reforms in the East Asian Tigers, India, the Middle East and the Philippines: Varying degrees of success -- Section III. Implications of Past Global History for the Future in Sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere -- The Last Battleground for Rural Land Issues: Sub-Saharan Africa -- Agrarian Reform in World History: Success and Failure.

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Berry, R. Albert. The great curse

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