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Myanmar: The Next Great Land Tenure Reform?

This op-ed originally appeared in PLACE. By Roy Prosterman Since World War II, there have been five great Asian development success stories founded upon land tenure reforms that allocated land ownership, or equivalent long-term land rights, into the hands of small farmers. Will Burma be the sixth? A rare opportunity is knocking, to directly benefit as many as four million of the poorest families on [...]