Land reform and structural adjustment in sub-Saharan Africa : controversies and guidelines / Jean-Philippe Platteau.

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.