TY - JOUR
T1 - Anti-poverty or Anti-poor? The World Bank's market-led agrarian reform experiment in the Philippines
AU - Borras, Saturnino M.
AU - Carranza, Danilo
AU - Franco, Jennifer C.
PY - 2007/12
Y1 - 2007/12
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/36148972753
U2 - 10.1080/01436590701637409
DO - 10.1080/01436590701637409
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:36148972753
SN - 0143-6597
VL - 28
SP - 1557
EP - 1576
JO - Third World Quarterly
JF - Third World Quarterly
IS - 8
ER -
