High administrative costs and mobilization of workers that otherwise would have been employed elsewhere make the program less attractive from an over-all welfare perspective. The results for the land reform simulations show that a tax-based land reform program has the potential of generating substantial gains for the household groups that receive the redistributed resources. The aggregate gains and the distributional effects are reinforced if the new owners are able to maintain the production pattern of the estate sector. Matching financing from the rest of the world can play a similar role by benefiting the target groups. Download full-text discussion paper .
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