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Increasing The Flow Of Private Funds To The Underdeveloped Countries: A Proposal, Paul M. Goldberg
Increasing The Flow Of Private Funds To The Underdeveloped Countries: A Proposal, Paul M. Goldberg
Washington Law Review
If the underdeveloped nations of the world are to achieve their goal of a substantial increase in their standards of living, they must import private capital. Foreign investors, however, have recently shown a reluctance to invest abroad because of the increasing risk of uncompensated expropriation of their property. Several current proposals seek to reduce this risk by limiting the power of states to acquire alien property. This approach appears to be ineffective because of the reluctance of the underdeveloped nations to agree to abide by foreign standards of property treatment. After outlining the nature of the problem and analyzing the …
Land Reform In Latin America: How To Have A Revolution Without A Revolution, Roy L. Prosterman
Land Reform In Latin America: How To Have A Revolution Without A Revolution, Roy L. Prosterman
Washington Law Review
It is almost universally recognized that land reform in Latin America is of vital interest to all of the countries of the hemisphere, and that it is long overdue. The degree of concentration of landholdings in the great estates (the latifundios) is astonishing: in Brazil, it appears that 1.5 per cent of all landholdings account for over 48 per cent of the farm area; in Chile, 1.4 per cent of holdings account for over 68 per cent of the farm area; in Ecuador, 0.17 per cent of holdings account for 37 per cent of the farm land; in Venezuela, 1.69 …