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This paper provides an overview of land reform in South Africa from 1994 to 2011, with the focus on the land redistribution. The government policies and associated implementation since 1994 have not generated expected social and economic results for a number of reasons. Even where land has been transferred, it appears to have had minimal impact on the livelihoods of beneficiaries, largely because of inappropriate project design, a lack of necessary support services and shortages of working capital, leading to widespread underutilization of land. There is no evidence to suggest that land reform has led to improvements in agricultural efficiency, income, employment or economic growth. Therefore, the current approach, based on acquisition of land through the open market, minimal support to new farmers, and bureaucratic imposition of production models loosely based on existing commercial operators, is unlikely to transform the rural economy and lift people out of poverty. The paper argues that there are two important missing aspects in the land reform program. First, there is an absence of any viable small-farmer path to development, which could enable the millions of households residing in the communal areas and on commercial farms to expand their own production and accumulate wealth and resources in an incremental manner. Making this happen would require radical restructuring of existing farm units to create family-size farms, more realistic farm planning, appropriate support from a much-reformed state agricultural service, and a much greater role for beneficiaries in the design and implementation of their own projects. Second, what is clearly missing from the governance tradition is the sustained focus on implementation, resource mobilization, and timely policy adjustment. Much more will be required for land reform program to contribute significantly to economic growth and to the redistribution of wealth and opportunities to the majority of the population.
Agricultural Finance --- Agricultural Sector --- Agriculture --- Commercial Banks --- Economic Development --- Economics --- Farmland --- Food Security --- Gender --- Household Income --- Housing --- Human Rights --- Inequality --- Land Management --- Land Reform --- Land Tenure --- Livestock --- Malnutrition --- Marketing --- Municipal Housing and Land --- Nongovernmental Organizations --- Poverty Line --- Poverty Reduction --- Private Sector --- Property Rights --- Rural Development --- Rural Economy --- Rural Land Policies for Poverty Reduction --- Rural Poverty --- Rural Poverty Reduction --- Unemployment --- Urban Development --- Urbanization
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The Central America region is a small market. The region contains around 43 million inhabitants (0.6 percent of total world population) who generate around 0.25 percent of the world's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). While the region has successfully embarked on a regional integration agenda and has strong commercial links with the US, extra-regional trade-mainly with large fast-growing emerging economies-remains a challenge. Export performance is analyzed along three dimensions that, together, give a fairly comprehensive picture of competitiveness: 1) the composition, orientation and growth of the export basket; 2) the degree of export diversification across products and markets; and 3) the level of sophistication and quality of their main exports. This analysis allows exports dynamics at the different margins of trade (intensive, extensive, and quality) to be evaluated and individual countries' to be benchmarked with peers in the Central American region. The results of this report allow policy makers to identify key areas to explore in the overall discussion of export competitiveness in the Central American region. This paper relates to the literature on challenges and opportunities that trade liberalization can bring to the Central American region. Much of the recent literature focuses on the role of the free trade agreement negotiated by Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, with the US.
Access to Markets --- Accounting --- Agriculture --- Cash Transfers --- Collective Action --- Employment --- Export Competitiveness --- Highways --- Household Income --- Household Size --- Insurance --- Labor Policies --- Malnutrition --- Population Density --- Poverty Reduction --- Productivity --- Rural Communications --- Rural Development --- Rural Economy --- Rural Population --- Rural Poverty --- Rural Poverty Reduction --- Rural Roads & Transport --- School Feeding Programs --- Social Protections and Labor --- Spatial analysis --- Transaction Costs --- Transport --- Transport Economics Policy and Planning --- Wages
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