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Land in Bolivia was unequally distributed – 92% of the cultivable land was held by large estates – until the Bolivian national revolution in 1952. Then, the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement government abolished forced peasantry labor and established a program of expropriation and distribution of the rural property of the traditional landlords to the indigenous peasants.
Redistribution of income and wealth is the transfer of income and wealth (including physical property) from some individuals to others through a social mechanism such as taxation, welfare, public services, land reform, monetary policies, confiscation, divorce or tort law. [1]
Land reform may consist of a government-initiated or government-backed property redistribution, generally of agricultural land.Land reform can, therefore, refer to transfer of ownership from the more powerful to the less powerful, such as from a relatively small number of wealthy or noble owners with extensive land holdings (e.g., plantations, large ranches, or agribusiness plots) to ...
Contemporary examples include attempts to deprive people of land in places like Nandigram in India and eMacambini in South Africa. Privatization is the process of transferring public assets from the state to the private companies. Productive assets include natural resources, such as earth, forest, water, and air.
The Alliance for Progress achieved a short-lived public relations success. It also had real but limited economic advances. [12] But by the early 1970s the program was widely viewed as a failure. [19] The program failed for three reasons: Latin American nations were unwilling to implement needed reforms, particularly in land reform.
Northern America: High income 35.40 2018 Guatemala: Central America: Upper middle income 48.3 2014 48.28 2014 Guyana: South America: High income 45.0 1998 35.00 2006 Hong Kong: Eastern Asia: High income 42.00 2016 Honduras: Central America: Lower middle income 48.2 2019 48.10 2021 Croatia: Southern Europe: High income 28.9 2021 28.92
Accession Date Area (sq.mi.) Area (km 2.) Cost in dollars Original territory of the Thirteen States (western lands, roughly between the Mississippi River and Appalachian Mountains, were claimed but not administered by the states and were all ceded to the federal government or new states by 1802)
A map showing Gini coefficients for Wealth within countries for 2021. [1] This is a list of countries by distribution of wealth, including Gini coefficients. Wealth distribution can vary greatly from income distribution in a country (see List of countries by income equality).