Understanding Land Reform in Ghana: A Critical Postcolonial Institutional Approach

Obeng-Odoom, F

Understanding Land Reform in Ghana: A Critical Postcolonial Institutional Approach

Obeng-Odoom, F

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Citation:: Review of Radical Political Economics, 2016, 48 (4), pp. 661 - 680
Issue Date:: 2016-12-01

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dc.contributor.author	Obeng-Odoom, F https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3997-7751	en_US
dc.date.available	2014-10-12	en_US
dc.date.issued	2016-12-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Review of Radical Political Economics, 2016, 48 (4), pp. 661 - 680	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0486-6134	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/37199
dc.description.abstract	© 2015, © 2015 Union for Radical Political Economics. Land reform has become particularly prominent in development discourse in recent times. Advocates emphasize its importance for poverty reduction in underdeveloped economies. However, how reform comes about and evolves and what it is and does is situated, not universal, as neoclassical economists suggest. This paper sheds light on the meaning, evolution, and outcomes of land reform in Ghana. It draws on historical and contemporary socio-legal and political-economic sources of evidence, analyzed within a critical postcolonial institutional framework. It shows important features of continuity and change in both colonial and post-colonial land reform. While pre-colonial land tenure relations are misrepresented as entailing no market activities, the concerted effort to introduce “capitalist markets” into the land sector to produce “socially efficient outcomes” has led to contradictory results.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Review of Radical Political Economics	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1177/0486613415603161	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Economics	en_US
dc.title	Understanding Land Reform in Ghana: A Critical Postcolonial Institutional Approach	en_US
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© 2015, © 2015 Union for Radical Political Economics. Land reform has become particularly prominent in development discourse in recent times. Advocates emphasize its importance for poverty reduction in underdeveloped economies. However, how reform comes about and evolves and what it is and does is situated, not universal, as neoclassical economists suggest. This paper sheds light on the meaning, evolution, and outcomes of land reform in Ghana. It draws on historical and contemporary socio-legal and political-economic sources of evidence, analyzed within a critical postcolonial institutional framework. It shows important features of continuity and change in both colonial and post-colonial land reform. While pre-colonial land tenure relations are misrepresented as entailing no market activities, the concerted effort to introduce “capitalist markets” into the land sector to produce “socially efficient outcomes” has led to contradictory results.

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