Poverty, Feudalism, and Land Reform— The Continued Relevance of Iqbal

How can land tenure reform contribute to poverty reduction

„The vision of a prosperous agriculturally based market economy in which increasingly diversified and commercially oriented small farmers with secure and exchangeable land rights, able not only to feed but also to remunerate themselves and their families while supplying [...] growing cities, generating local employment and national revenue, is powerful, attractive, motivating and valid. The que...

surveying the relevance of proportions to the content of quran verses

چکیده : قرآن چشمه سار زلال هدایتی است که از سوی خداوند حکیم نازل شده تا بشر را به سر منزل کمال برساند. و در این راستا از شیوه های گوناگون بیانی خطابی و بلاغی استفاده کرده تا با فطرت زیبا طلب انسان درآمیزد و اورا مقهور خویش ساخته، به سوی کمالات سوق دهد.ازجمله جنبه های بارز اعجاز بیانی قرآن وجود فواصل در پایان آیات است که کار برد سجع و قافیه در کلام بشر شبیه آن است. برخی ازعلمای سلف تفاوت هایی ب...

Tax Reform and Poverty

The tax system has a pervasive impact on poverty, both directly through its role in the distribution of society’s resources and indirectly through its effects on the incentives for economic decisions like working and saving. The two most important facets of the tax system for low-income families are payroll taxes and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), the former of which levies a tax on earne...

Welfare and Poverty: The Elements of Reform

Land Reform:

Land reform, after a long period of being considered irrelevant or passé, has now emerged into the media and political limelight. To some extent, this is due to the well-publicised land invasions in Zimbabwe. However, the Brazilian MST's mobilizations in the 1990s have attracted attention and land invasions have also occurred in South Africa in the recent period (Merten and wa ka Ngobeni, 2001;...