oops Mobutu Sese Seko. On Mugabe, I think A&R would be surprised that the anti-white land confiscation has apparently not damaged productivity as much as had been feared. I think Proyect forwarded the interesting article from the NYT on that. On land reform generally it may also be that A&R put all the emphasis on the gains from private property in Chinese agriculture and not on its radically egalitarian nature, a point emphasized by Pranab Bardhan. The radically egalitarian nature of land reform in South Korea may have also been an important source of its rise. I think Bruce Cumins argues that. There is also the question of the importance of state R&D in raising agricultural productivity in China. So there may be an over-emphasis on private property in itself.
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