TY  - BOOK
AU  - Platteau,J.P.
ED  - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
TI  - Land reform and structural adjustment in sub-Saharan Africa: controversies and guidelines 
SN  - 9789251030004
U1  - 346.044 22
PY  - 1992///
CY  - Rome
PB  - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
KW  - Land reform
KW  - Africa, Sub-Saharan
KW  - Land tenure
KW  - Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
N1  - 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
ER  -