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   Development by dispossession: the post-2000 development agenda and land rights in Lesotho

   Journal Articles & Books

   March, 2017

   Lesotho

   Land & Investments

   land policies

   land reform

   dispossession

   This paper questions the novelty of post-2000 development strategies, in particular the US’s Millennium Challenge Corporation and its ethos of ‘poverty reduction through economic growth.’ Using land as a lens, I explore recent eras of development assistance and ask if the Millennium-era has been appreciably different from pre-2000 development. The backdrop of my study is an MCC-sponsored land reform in Lesotho. I use data drawn from fieldwork in Lesotho to argue that the logics and outcomes of the Development industry’s land policies have remained largely the same.