Poverty as Subsistence: The World Bank and Pro-Poor Land Reform in Eurasia Varga Mihai
Poverty as Subsistence: The World Bank and Pro-Poor Land Reform in Eurasia Varga Mihai Poverty as Subsistence explores the "propertizing" land reform policy that the World Bank advocated throughout…
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Poverty as Subsistence: The World Bank and Pro-Poor Land Reform in Eurasia Varga Mihai
Poverty as Subsistence explores the "propertizing" land reform policy that the World Bank advocated throughout the transitioning countries of Eurasia, expecting poverty reduction to result from distributing property titles over agricultural land to local (rural) populations. Varga argues that the World Bank advocated a simplified version of China's land reform that ignored a key element of successful reforms: the smallholders' immediate environment, the structure of actors and institutions determining whether smallholders survive and grow in their communities. China's early 1980s land reform offered support for this expectation, but while the spread of propertizing reform to post-communist Eurasia created numerous "subsistence" smallholders, it failed to stimulate entrepreneurship or market-based production among the rural poor.
With concrete insights from analysis of the land