The political economy of Land Reform: A new perspective applied to Latin America

• Author(s): Sousa, Miguel Rocha de
• Date: 2009
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/8466
• Origin: Repositório Científico da Universidade de Évora
• Subject(s): Brazil; “Cédula”; human capital; Land Reform; Latin America; Learning by doing; “MST - Movimento dos Sem Terra”
• Document Type: Research paper
• Language: English

Description

We define in section 1 our notion of land reform, on section 2, the most important social and political movements of land reform in Latin America are presented. On section 3 we use a theoretical model in the context of economic growth with human capital learning-by-doing to evaluate land reforms. Section 4, discusses the results. Section 5 presents some economic efficiency estimates for the “Cédula” project of 2000 in NE Brazil - a market led land bill project, sponsored by the World Bank (WB) and the Ministry of Agricultural Development (MDA). Finally, section 6 concludes, and section 7 presents the references.