This book re-evaluates the importance of social policies in shaping well-being and combating exclusion, and enhances understanding of how these policies are formed in a globalizing world. It emphasises the context- and path-dependence of patterns and policies of inclusion and exclusion, and...

chapter Introducing land reform -- chapter 1 Goals -- chapter 2 Output, efficiency and growth goals: beyond the inverse relationship -- chapter 3 Land reforms: the types, and the classic paradigm -- chapter 4 Tenurial options: Tenancy reform, titling, patrialisation -- chapter 5 The terrible...

Improved farm technology helps all main groups of the poor - small farmers, farmworkers, other low-wage labour - when it raises labour value-productivity, but raises land and/or water value-productivity faster; and cuts staples prices, but raises smallholders' total factor productivity...