Land reform and structural adjustment in sub-Saharan Africa : controversies and guidelines /
Platteau, J. P.
Land reform and structural adjustment in sub-Saharan Africa : controversies and guidelines / Jean-Philippe Platteau. - Rome : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1992. - viii, 324 p. ; 21 cm. - FAO economic and social development paper ; 107 .
Contents;
Introduction
Chapter 1: The world bank and the issue of land reform
Land reform in the postwar context: A background view
Land reform and the world bank: the landmarks of ac changing approach
Chapter 2: The emergency of the new institutional economics
The research programme of the NIE
Methodological individualism and strategic behavior
Transactions costs and imperfect information
Free-riding and collective action problems
etc.
Chapter 3: Economists and land reform: The general case
Introduction
The inverse relationship between farm size and land productivity
Where the official doctrine of land reform runs into difficulties
Chapter 4: Economists and land reform: The special case of sub-Saharan Africa
Introduction
Customary land tenure and colonial impact
Conventional arguments and their critique
Where the evolutionary process runs into trouble
Chapter 5: A critical appraisal of current orthodoxies with special reference to sub-Saharan Africa
Introduction
The case for government regulation of access to land
The case for official support of cooperative forms of land management
Bibliographical references : p. 299-324.
9789251030004 9251030006
93211115
Land reform--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Land tenure--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Structural adjustment (Economic policy)--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
346.044 / PLA
Land reform and structural adjustment in sub-Saharan Africa : controversies and guidelines / Jean-Philippe Platteau. - Rome : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1992. - viii, 324 p. ; 21 cm. - FAO economic and social development paper ; 107 .
Contents;
Introduction
Chapter 1: The world bank and the issue of land reform
Land reform in the postwar context: A background view
Land reform and the world bank: the landmarks of ac changing approach
Chapter 2: The emergency of the new institutional economics
The research programme of the NIE
Methodological individualism and strategic behavior
Transactions costs and imperfect information
Free-riding and collective action problems
etc.
Chapter 3: Economists and land reform: The general case
Introduction
The inverse relationship between farm size and land productivity
Where the official doctrine of land reform runs into difficulties
Chapter 4: Economists and land reform: The special case of sub-Saharan Africa
Introduction
Customary land tenure and colonial impact
Conventional arguments and their critique
Where the evolutionary process runs into trouble
Chapter 5: A critical appraisal of current orthodoxies with special reference to sub-Saharan Africa
Introduction
The case for government regulation of access to land
The case for official support of cooperative forms of land management
Bibliographical references : p. 299-324.
9789251030004 9251030006
93211115
Land reform--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Land tenure--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Structural adjustment (Economic policy)--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
346.044 / PLA