The Crisis of Rural Poverty and Hunger: An Essay on the Complementarity between Market- and Government-Led Land Reform for its Resolution

by M. Riad El-Ghonemy

Overview

M. Riad El-Ghonemy argues that if current trends in government-led and market based land reforms persist the rural poor population in developing countries will continue to rise.Based on nearly half a century of academic and field research this valuable work presents compelling evidence on persistent rural poverty, hunger and increased inequality in

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136754463
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/26/2007
Series:	Routledge Studies in Development Economics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

M. Riad El-Ghonemy is Senior Research Associate at the Department of International Development, University of Oxford and Reasearch Fellow at the Department of Economics, the American University in Cairo and Emiritus Professor, Ein-Shams University, Cairo. He is the author of several publications including The Political Economy of Rural Poverty (1990) and Affluence and Poverty in the Middle East (1998).

Table of Contents

1. The Crisis: Persistent Rural Poverty, Hunger and Landlessness2.Reform of Land-property Rights between the State and the Market: Principles and Concepts 3. The Agricultural Dimension of Poverty 4. Farm Size and Productivity 5. Case Studies 1: State-administered Complete Land Reform 6. Case Studies II: Partial Land Reform 7.Market Liberalization: Market-based Land Reform 8. Challenges and Prospects