this is particularly the case in agriculture where land is the most immediate asset for many of the poor as it will constrain the potential for poverty reduction through the rise of small farmers or micro small and mediumsized enterprises msmes thus securing property rights and ensuring efficient land administration systems are critical factors in enabling propoor growth byerlee diao and jackson in the late s and s both the republic of korea and taiwan province of china carried out land reforms through dissolving land elites and conducting largescale land redistribution with these reforms both economies began their highgrowth phase in the mid s with a low level of inequality and a gini coefficient of around