Borras, Saturnino M., Jr. <br/><br/>
Anti-poverty or anti-poor? The world bank's market-led agrarian reform experiment in the Philippines 

 -  2007 
 - p.1557-576. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Land reform - Philippines<br/>Land reform