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Agrarian reform in developing countries grants rights, or powers, to consume, obtain income from, and transfer landed assets. Land titling alone not does address the constraints of customary land tenure or ensure the development of a land market. Successful market-led agrarian reform, as in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia after the end of communism, consists of a large package, including also tax reform and other measures in support of markets. Agrarian reform is well understood to be a multi-instrument design for rural development, and it forms a large component of theory and practice of development economics. This chapter concerns the theory and practice of agrarian reforms, with descriptions of country policies and factors which contributed to long-run outcomes. It focuses on rural development theories from the 1950s, and it includes coverage of postcommunist transition reforms as well as other twentieth and twenty-first-century country experiences.
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Leonard, C.S. (2022). Agrarian Reforms. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66252-3_1045
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