Land settlement policies and population redistribution in developing countries:  performance, problems and prospects.
The author describes and compares land settlement in various developing countries, focusing on the movement of people to underutilized agricultural areas.  "The purpose of this article is fourfold:  first, to discuss the performance of settlement programmes, concentrating on the extent to which they have achieved their population redistribution and other objectives; second, to analyse major economic and social problems confronting them; third, to identify factors that have contributed to their success or failure; and, fourth, to assess alternative policy options."  This analysis of land settlement programs "suggests that so far they have made no more than a modest contribution to the solution of the problems of population distribution, unemployment and poverty."
D000383:Agriculture; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004777:Environment; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005843:Geography; D009934:Organization and Administration; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011640:Public Policy; D012939:Social Planning; D012940:Social Problems
Agricultural Development; Critique; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Development Planning; Development Policy; Economic Conditions; Economic Development; Economic Factors; Environment; Geographic Factors; Land Supply; Macroeconomic Factors; Migration; Migration Policy; Migration, Internal; Natural Resources; Organization And Administration; Policy; Population; Population Dynamics; Population Policy; Program Appropriateness; Program Effectiveness; Program Evaluation; Programs; Progress Report; Rural Development; Settlement And Resettlement; Social Policy; Social Problems; Spatial Distribution--changes