New Seeds and Poor People

Business & Money

Lipton, Michael

Longhurst, Richard

Economics

Taylor & Francis Books Ltd

LIPTON, M. / J. TOYE: DOES AID WORK IN INDIA? A COUNTRY STUDY OF THE IMPACT OF OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE. LONDON, 1990, 276 p. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

Does Aid Work in India?: A Country Study of the Impact of Official Development Assistance

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? Or is it dead and, if so, is this because it has succeeded, or because it has failed? There has been massive research on land reform and this book builds on some surprising findings. <ul>
<li>Small farms’ share in land is rising in most of Asia and Africa. </li> <li>This is not driven (as widely claimed) by growth in rural population or farm productivity, but by the relative efficiency of small farms, and in some cases by land reform. </li> <li>Whether land reform helps the poor depends not only on land transfers, but at least as much on its effects through employment, non-farm activity, GDP growth and distribution, as well as the village status and power of the poor. </li> <li>Avoidance, evasion and even distortion of land reform laws sometimes advance their main aims. </li> <li>Liberalisation and its accompaniments (such as supermarkets) can be powerful friends or fatal foes of small farms and land reform.</li> </ul> This book will be of great interest to students, researchers and consultants working on agriculture, farm organisation, rural development and poverty reduction, with special emphasis on developing countries.

Land Reform in Developing Countries: Property Rights and Property Wrongs (Priorities for Development Economics)

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Does Aid Work in India?

Much about India's economy and aid flows has changed in the last two decades. India's growth rate has quickened since economic liberalisation, the poverty head count has fallen and the volume and composition of its aid have changed as new issues of climate change and the environment have emerged..Yet Does Aid Work in India?, first published in 1990, remains of great interest as a study of aid effectiveness in India's pre-liberalisation era. It identifies those sectors where aid-funded interventions succeeded, and where they failed. It explains how India avoided problems of aid dependence, and managed the political tensions that are associated with aid policy dialogue. More generally, it contains a useful commentary on and criticism of donors' aid evaluation procedures at that time and it highlights donor efforts in the difficult area of institution building. Despite the passage of time, many of the insights from India's earlier experience remain highly relevant to key issues of development assistance today.

Toye, John

First published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Land Reform in Developing Countries (Priorities for Development Economics)

Argues that the greatest division in the world today is the economic gap between urban and rural areas in the developing countries and sets forth approaches to improving the conditions of the world's most impoverished peoples

Why Poor People Stay Poor: Urban Bias in World Development

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Harvard University Press

Land Reform in Developing Countries: Property Rights and Property Wrongs

Poverty has diminished more worldwide in the past 50 years than in the previous 50 centuries. In many parts of the world, however, the proportion of people who are too poor to afford enough food regularly is no less--and in some cases more--in 1997 than in 1947. 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 book observes that in almost every country or region, some projects or policies have succeeded; a few successful schemes appear to be replicable; and even where projects and policies are generally deemed to be failures, there are areas of success.

Successes in Anti-Poverty

Yaqub, Shahin

Darbellay, Eliane

Intl Labour Organisation

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

Paarlberg, Robert

Intl Food Policy Research Inst

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