FINAL EVALUATION REPORT

摘要: The objectives of land redistribution are largely classified into (i) social,(ii) economic (iii) political and (iv) environmental. As expressed by Binswanger et al.(2008), advocates of social land reform expect little overall economic gain from the reform, but see it as a way to provide some security and subsistence to a large unemployed rural labor force. To them, the main thrust of agricultural development is to come from large-scale farms and the supporting agro-industrial sectors. The advocates of economic land reform stress the productive superiority of family farms; and they expect the land reform to make a significant contribution not only to agricultural production, but also to rural employment, self-employment, and poverty reduction. Binswanger et al.(2008) also express that advocates of political land reform appreciate, for instance, the dissolution of feudal relationships of production and excessively concentrated and exploitative elite power structures. Specific objectives of political land reform include the creation of political stability and peace. Finally, the advocates of environmental land reform seek the environmentally sustainable management of land, forests, and wildlife resources by turning over their ownership and management to defined communitiesThe advocates of economic land reform base their argument on the economic theory which states that a onetime distribution of assets in an environment of imperfect markets is associated with permanent higher levels of growth (Deininger et al 2000). Consistent with this notion, Aghion et al.(1999) express that, in fact, redistribution in an economy can be conducive to growth. Cross country …