Escaping Ethiopia's poverty trap: The case for a second agrarian reform

Journal of Modern African Studies

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 313-342

  Abegaz, Berhanu ^a  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRARIAN REFORM; LAND REFORM; RURAL ECONOMY; RURAL POLICY; SMALLHOLDER;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; ETHIOPIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 4143147515     PISSN: 0022278X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022278X04000217     Document Type: Article

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