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Land Reform in the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europeby Stephen K. Wegren
Routledge 1997; US$ 190.00This is the first major study in this area and makes use of extensive field work, unpublished materials, statistical data and interviews with land reform officials to show the importance of land reform for this transitional region. more...
Political Economy of Rural Povertyby M. Riad El-Ghonemy
Routledge 1990; US$ 210.00Discussing countries as diverse as China, Kenya, India, Bolivia, Egypt and South Korea the book offers new insights to anyone working in rural development. more...
Gaining Ground?by Deborah James
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 63.95Mugabe's policy of land seizures in Zimbabwe raised concerns in South Africa. Set amidst these conflicts, Gaining Ground? shows how land reform policy and practice in post-apartheid South Africa have been produced and contested. more...
Landing Votesby Nancy D. Lapp
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 81.00Landing Votes' explores the conditions under which democratic Latin American governments address peristent political and economic inequities. It highlights the ways in which politicians have used land reform as a means of extending the right to vote and how party rivalries have benefited the rural poor. more...
The Post-Soviet Potemkin Villageby Jessica Allina-Pisano
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 25.00Explains how the introduction of rural private property rights in Ukraine and Russia generated poverty. more...
An Essay on the Restoration of Propertyby Hilaire Belloc
IHS Press 2002; US$ 10.95This short work is a program for property distribution as an alternative to how it is planned by socialist states or naturally happens in capitalist societies. It is a landmark of European social thought, attempting to rectify the wrongs in both of the major economic theories by approaching the problem from an entirely new angle. The essay is thus an anticapitalist and antisocialist work of Christian and Catholic social thought in which basic truths about society and human nature are applied to socioeconomics. It is a manifesto and a program for the Distributist League, of which Belloc and G. K. Chesterton were the primary figures. It marks a key point in the history of economic thought, and it is a fundamental text illustrating the influence... more...
The Politics of Land Reform in Africaby Ambreena Manji
Zed Books 2006; US$ 32.95Across Africa land is being commodified: private ownership is replacing communal and customary tenure, and farms are turned into collateral for rural credit markets. Law reform is at the heart of this revolution. The Politics of Land Reform in Africa casts a critical spotlight on this profound change in African land economy. The book illuminates the key role of legislators, legal consultants and academics in tenure reform. These players exert their influence by translating the economic and regulatory interests of the World Bank, civil society groups and commercial lenders in to questions of law. Drawing on political economy and actor-network theory The Politics of Land Reform in Africa is an indispensable contribution to the study of agrarian... more...
Urban Land Reform in Chinaby L. Hin
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 1999; US$ 138.00This book provides an authoritative account of urban land reform in China, which is unique in merging the existing socialist landowner system with market mechanisms. The book starts with an historical account of the land tenure system in China followed by discussions of the reform within its legal, administrative and financial frameworks. Contrasting case studies of the Shanghai land system and of Hong Kong after the end of British rule illustrate the impact of land reform in China's transition. more...
Land and Sustainable Development in Africaby Kojo Sebastian Amanor; Sam Moyo
Zed Books 2008; US$ 34.95This book links contemporary debates on land reform with wider discourses on sustainable development within Africa. Featuring chapters and in-depth case studies on South Africa and Zimbabwe, Malawi, Kenya, Botswana and West Africa, it traces the development of ideas about sustainable development and addresses a new agenda based on social justice. more...
The Political Economy of Rural Livelihoods in Transition Economiesby Max Spoor
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 44.95This book is an analytical stock-taking exercise on processes of land reform and rural market restructuring and development, in the context of transition economies in Central- and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and Asia. more...









