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Anti-poverty or anti-poor? The world bank's market-led agrarian reform experiment in the Philippines

By: Borras, Saturnino M., Jr.
Contributor(s): Franco, Jennifer C | Carranza, Danilo.
Material type: materialTypeLabelArticlePublisher: 2007Description: p.1557-576.Subject(s): Land reform - Philippines | Land reform In: Third World QuarterlySummary: After seven years of implementation, the results are in: the World Bank's experiment in market-led agrarian reform in the Philippines has resulted in anti-poor outcomes. The evidence shows that wealth and power transfers in the project sites have followed four broad patterns - all flowing in one basic direction: intra-elite/elite-to-elite, state-to-elite, foreign donor-to-elite and poor-to-elite. Alongside its clear failure in this specific sense, the experiment has been a boon for the cause of anti-reform, strengthening the manoeuvres of anti-reform forces, while undermining the redistributive potentials not only of the present, but also of any future state land reform law in the country. - Reproduced.
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Volume no: 28, Issue no: 8 Available AR77706

After seven years of implementation, the results are in: the World Bank's experiment in market-led agrarian reform in the Philippines has resulted in anti-poor outcomes. The evidence shows that wealth and power transfers in the project sites have followed four broad patterns - all flowing in one basic direction: intra-elite/elite-to-elite, state-to-elite, foreign donor-to-elite and poor-to-elite. Alongside its clear failure in this specific sense, the experiment has been a boon for the cause of anti-reform, strengthening the manoeuvres of anti-reform forces, while undermining the redistributive potentials not only of the present, but also of any future state land reform law in the country. - Reproduced.

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