ECON213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Debt Bondage, Overseas Development Institute, Socalled
19 Jun 2016
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The material that follows has been provided by the overseas development institute. Following initial enthusiasm in the post-war period, land reform fell out of favour with donors from the early 1970s. Nonetheless, sporadic efforts to redistribute land continued: ethiopia in 1975, zimbabwe in 1980 and a renewed commitment to land reform in the philippines in 1988. These reforms stemmed from shifts in the domestic balance of power between landowners and landless workers and peasants, which were quite independent of donor policies. In the philippines non-market policies are being supported by donors, now that the cold war is over. Whereas the geographical context and individual country strategies may be new, the range of land reform measures being adopted and the implementation problems encountered are not. Due to differences in land types, farming methods, the history of land acquisition, general social and economic conditions and political aims, the definition of land reform is not easy.
