M. Riad El-Ghonemy is Senior Research Associate at the Department of International Development, University of Oxford and Reasearch Fellow at the Department of Economics, the American University in Cairo and Emiritus Professor, Ein-Shams University, Cairo. He is the author of several publications including The Political Economy of Rural Poverty (1990) and Affluence and Poverty in the Middle East (1998).

• 1. The Crisis: Persistent Rural Poverty, Hunger and Landlessness 2. Reform of Land-property Rights between the State and the Market: Principles and Concepts 3. The Agricultural Dimension of Poverty 4. Farm Size and Productivity 5. Case Studies 1: State-administered Complete Land Reform 6. Case Studies II: Partial Land Reform 7. Market Liberalization: Market-based Land Reform 8. Challenges and Prospects

M. Riad El-Ghonemy is Senior Research Associate at the Department of International Development, University of Oxford and Reasearch Fellow at the Department of Economics, the American University in Cairo and Emiritus Professor, Ein-Shams University, Cairo. He is the author of several publications including The Political Economy of Rural Poverty (1990) and Affluence and Poverty in the Middle East (1998).

• 1. The Crisis: Persistent Rural Poverty, Hunger and Landlessness 2. Reform of Land-property Rights between the State and the Market: Principles and Concepts 3. The Agricultural Dimension of Poverty 4. Farm Size and Productivity 5. Case Studies 1: State-administered Complete Land Reform 6. Case Studies II: Partial Land Reform 7. Market Liberalization: Market-based Land Reform 8. Challenges and Prospects

M. Riad El-Ghonemy is Senior Research Associate at the Department of International Development, University of Oxford and Reasearch Fellow at the Department of Economics, the American University in Cairo and Emiritus Professor, Ein-Shams University, Cairo. He is the author of several publications including The Political Economy of Rural Poverty (1990) and Affluence and Poverty in the Middle East (1998).

• 1. The Crisis: Persistent Rural Poverty, Hunger and Landlessness 2. Reform of Land-property Rights between the State and the Market: Principles and Concepts 3. The Agricultural Dimension of Poverty 4. Farm Size and Productivity 5. Case Studies 1: State-administered Complete Land Reform 6. Case Studies II: Partial Land Reform 7. Market Liberalization: Market-based Land Reform 8. Challenges and Prospects