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2 POWER AND POLITICS I OWN, THEREFORE I AMTable 2.1: Great land reforms of the twentieth centuryCountries Years of reform Beneficiary Redistributed land(in descending acts households as as percentage oforder of scale of percentage of <strong>to</strong>tal agriculturalbeneficiaries) <strong>to</strong>tal agricultural land (%)households (%)China 1949–56 c. 90 80South Korea 1945, 1950 75–77 65Cuba 1959–65 60 60Ethiopia 1975, 1979 57 76Iraq 1958, 1971 56 60Mexico 1915, 1934, 1940, c. 55 421971Tunisia 1956, 1957, 1958, 49 571964Iran 1962, 1967, 1989 45 34Peru 1969, 1970 40 38Algeria 1962, 1971 37 50Yemen, South 1969, 1970 25 47Nicaragua 1979, 1984, 1986 23 28Sri Lanka 1972, 1973 23 12El Salvador 1980 23 22Syria 1958, 1963, 1980 16 10Egypt 1952, 1961 14 10Libya 1970–75 12 13Chile 1967–73 12 13Philippines 1972, 1988, 1994 8 10India 1953–79 4 3Pakistan 1959, 1972 3 4Morocco 1956, 1963, 1973 2 4Source: M. Riad El-Ghonemy (1999) ‘The Political Economy of Market-Based Land Reform’,UNRISD Discussion Paper 104. See source for details of the types of land holdings includedin individual country <strong>to</strong>tals.75

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