This paper examines the claim that the land rental market can be an effective means of redistributing access to, if not ownership of, land to the rural poor, using Paraguay as our model. The land sales market is also examined. The land rental market in Paraguay's rural areas is found to be very...

This paper is the overview chapter of an edited volume on quot;The Distributional Effects of Government Spending and Taxation.quot; The paper offers the author's perspective on the government's role as a redistributive agent. Taxation and public spending programs are analyzed using the...