Developmental Dilemmas

Peter Ho is Professor of International Development Studies and concurrent Director of the Centre for Development Studies at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He is member of the Academic Committee of the International Institute for Asian Studies in Leiden and member of the Steering Committee of the European Conference on Agriculture and Rural Development in China.

Preface Introduction Restructuring Property Rights in China: The Chicken of Institutions or the Egg of Reforms? Part 1: Institutional Change, Politics and Administration 1. Property Rights and Land in Ex-Socialist States: Lessons of Transition for China 2. Land Use Rights: Legal Perspectives and Pitfalls for Land Reform 3. The Politics of Rural Land Use Planning Part 2: Land Tenure and Economic Relations 4. Land Tenure in China: Facts, Fictions and Issues 5. Market versus Administrative Reallocation of Land: An Econometric Analysis 6. Regional Differences in Land Holdings and Land Use: Analyzing the First Agricultural Census 7. What Drives Land Fragmentation? Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Analysis 8. Collective Landownership and its Role in Rural Industrialization Part 3: Rethinking Property Rights: Natural Resources and Gender 9. Property Rights Reform in Pastoral Areas: Dilemmas on the Road to the Household Ranch 10. Collective Forests and Forestland: Physical Asset Rights versus Economic Rights 11. Gender, Landlessness and Equity in Rural China