Date of Award:

5-1961

Document Type:

Thesis

Degree Name:

Master of Science (MS)

Department:

Applied Economics

Department name when degree awarded

Agricultural Economics

Committee Chair(s)

D. C. Strong

Committee

D. C. Strong

Committee

E. M. Morrison

Committee

R. W. Roskelly

Committee

L. J. Arrington

Abstract

Land tenure problems throughout the Middle East and most of the underdeveloped countries of the world are considered by competent international organizations and many students of world problems as one of the greatest contributing forces to social unrest and a barrier to economic development.

When the United Nations' General Assembly at its fifth session in 1950, had under discussion the problem of land reform in many underdeveloped countries, the consensus of opinions were that the conditions affecting land reform reduced agricultural productivity and were a major cause of low standards of living for the populations of those countries. The General Assembly stated the conviction that: "Immediate steps should be taken to study the extent to which existing agrarian conditions hamper the economic development of underdeveloped countries" (20).

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