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Land Reform in Developing Countries: Property Rights and Property Wrongs (Routledge Priorities in Development Economics) (9780415615563): Michael Lipton: Books. 'Michael Lipton has produced a unique work drawing upon the author’s extraordinary expertise in rural development. Lipton takes on a great, complex, and contentious topic, land reform, and does justice to this huge topic. He delves deeply and widely, producing a text that is remarkable in its scope, insights, and historical knowledge. He never fears to point out the true complexities of topics that are all too often over-simplified. Lipton’s work is also extremely timely, as the world turns its attention once again to smallholder agriculture after decades or relative neglect. Scholars, students, and policy makers in all parts of the world will turn to this new study with enormous benefit and with gratitude to Lipton for his remarkable efforts'. - Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University; Special Advisor to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on the Millennium Development Goals. 'Land reform can make a huge contribution in removing poverty, but it has not been effectively tried in many areas of the world. The story has to be finished, and in this important book one of the foremost development economists tells us why and how'. - Amartya Sen, Lamont Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University; Nobel prizewinner in economics 'A compelling case is made about the need to refocus on agricultural growth as the engine to reduce rural poverty. Improving access to land will ensure that the benefits of agricultural technical change reach many millions of rural poor. Professor Michael Lipton is a world renowned authority on these issues. His decades of research experience, distilled in the book, offer compelling, insightful and timely solutions which are critical in addressing the global food crisis'. - Akin Adesina, Vice President, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa 'Michael Lipton (pinching from Mark Twain) convincingly states that 'Reports of land reform's death are greatly exaggerated'. He takes the reader on a developing-world tour and shows tremendous dynamics in land reforms. Land reform is neither dead nor dying. As land (with access to water) becomes more scarce, land values increase as a consequence. Farms in many regions of the developing world actually become smaller -mostly for good economic reasons- and the need for efficient institutional change related to land remains strong. This book gives guidance for sound policy and offers unique opportunities for learning about land reform across time and locations. It is a must for development scholars!' - Joachim von Braun, Director, International Food Policy Research Institute 'Land reform has had a rollercoaster ride in the toolbox of development strategies: from a panacea that would cure all ills and help replicate the successes of Japan and Korea, to venom that destroys property rights and creates unviable production units that lead to agricultural decline and urban migration as it has purportedly done in Latin America. The story is really much more complex and nuanced. Michael Lipton - the doyen of the field - uses his half-century of thinking and experience as a development economist to set the record straight and to clarify the conditions under which land reform does and does not deliver the goods. It is a must read for those who are committed to finding the road to shared prosperity in the developing world'. - Ricardo Hausmann, Director, Center for International Development at Harvard University; Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, Harvard Kennedy School 'This is a passionate book – it is also brilliantly argued. Michael Lipton accepts that the poor of South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa need appropriate and often advanced scientific technologies &[5729] Michael Lipton has worked since 1960 as a development economist. He was based for 25 years at the Institute of Development Studies, for three years directed the Sussex University Poverty Research Unit, and remains research professor at Sussex.
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