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This Conference has been convened on Development: the next twenty five years. It was about 25 years ago that one of the Third World public policies that is widely considered to have served rural development with success in model fashion reached its final phase, the so-called ‘land-to-the-tiller’ programme of the Nationalist Chinese land reforms in Taiwan 1949–53.
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Apthorpe, R. (1979). The Burden of Land Reform: An Asian Model Land Reform Re-Analysed. In: Development of Societies: The Next Twenty-Five Years. Institute of Social Studies, vol 5. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3952-6_14
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