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Authors Glossary Links Contact Us   Joseph Stiglitz: October
2002 Interview with Christopher Williams , of the Robert
Schalkenbach Foundation, published in Geophilos, Spring, 2003
[See the original for some prefatory material. Wealthandwant has
Americanized some spellings.]           JES: That is one of the
key issues. And there's a program at the World Bank that's been
started in Brazil, which is called "Market-Based Land Reform"
where they buy the land and give it or sell it to the workers.
They use government power to obtain the right to buy it.  Q: Has
President Mugabe of Zimbabwe's misuse of government power to
return land to its so-called "rightful owners" given land reform
a bad name?    JES: No. Land reform is not a big issue in the
United States because we don't have a lot of sharecropping.
There's some, but it's very limited.   JES: I think some
countries in South America are moving in that direction. They're
beginning to do this form of