What can we do to unlock the unrealised potential of the
hundreds of millions of rural poor and landless workers?
The ever-topical central theme in this collection of essays is
the mixed role of government and the institutionally regulated
market in tackling rural poverty and land distribution inequality.
Drawing on over half a century of M. Riad El-Ghonemy's academic and
field experience in developing countries across Africa, Latin
America, the Middle East and South East Asia, this is a
comprehensive record of the late-twentieth century study of and
struggle against rural inequality, seen through the eyes of one of
its foremost observers.
Containing a balance of in-depth field studies and El-Ghonemy's
personal observations from 1952 onwards, this volume provides the
basis for discussion and debate on a range of developmental issues.
Foremost among these is the appropriate approach both to explain
the factors underlying developing countries' rural backwardness,
and to enable them to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of
halving the incidence of poverty and hunger by 2015. The compelling
argument made here is that redistributive land reform, combined
with non-farm intensive employment opportunities and investment in
education within rural areas are necessary to tackle persistent
poverty effectively.
Anti-Poverty Land Reform Issues Never Die is essential reading
for undergraduate and postgraduate students learning rural
development and institutional and development economics.
M.Riad El-Ghonemy is Senior Research Associate at the Department
of International Development, University of Oxford and Research
Fellow at the Department of Economics, the American University in
Cairo, and Emeritus Professor, Ein-Shams University, Cairo. He is
the author of several publications, including The Political Economy
of Rural Poverty, Routledge (1990).
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