Crisis of Rural Poverty and Hunger - An Essay on Complementarity Between Market And Government Led Land

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext No further information has been provided for this title. Zusammenfassung 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 developing countries over the last thirty years. The book furthers the debate with sixteen detailed case studies and looks beyond the typical views of the roles of the state and the market on land reform. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The Crisis: Persistent Rural Poverty, Hunger and Landlessness 2. 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

Product details

• Authors: M. Riad El-Ghonemy
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.04.2007
• EAN: 9780415396578
• ISBN: 978-0-415-39657-8
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Poverty & unemployment, Social discrimination & inequality, Human Geography, Development Studies, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Poverty and precarity, Social discrimination and social justice