"Critically examines successes and failures of agrarian reform efforts in Bolivia, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Mexico. Concludes that agrarian reform has done little to reduce poverty or to create employment opportunities and a more equal distribution of resources. Worth...

The paper analyses primary economic data from 43 agrarian reform settlements, or asentamientos, in Panama, to determine the level and sources of beneficiary incomes, the relationship of possible independent variables to settlement performance, and the current return from various collective...