organized as follows: Section 1 describes Mexico's rural economy. It reviews the broad context of macro, trade, and sector …, highlighting in particular the socio-economic and natural resource characteristics that make the ejido sector central to Mexico …

-term economic growth. Focusing on the design and implementation of Mexico's massive land redistribution program, we argue that … governments do so to improve their chances of political survival. Mexico’s incumbent PRI regime gave peasants communal property …