This report is the beginning of my education on the relationship between the WB and private propertization schemes. The most damning report I've read so far is George Caffentzis' "Tale of Two Conferences," which is also posted on this website. Caffentzis accuses the WB of responding to the worldwide revolts against Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) by pushing common property arrangements as a way of controlling indigenous resistance. However, this report on the destructive agrarian reforms of the WB focuses mostly on the sale of land, rather than on the promotion of common property as a subversive method of propertization. These methods are described here in this excerpt from the report:

"So-called "market assisted land reform" - a phrase that has been strongly criticized by social movements because it doesn't do justice to "land reform" - is based on promoting the sale of land by large landowners to landless or near landless families. This policy is being pushed or implemented by the Bank in some 30 developing countries, ostensibly to "alleviate rural poverty." Nevertheless, the findings of various researchers and the concrete experiences of countries like Colombia, Brazil, South Africa, Guatemala and Thailand, reveal many problems associated with so-called "land market" policies, including a tendency toward greater poverty."

[Website Instruction: Go the website and click on "Cartilas." This will take you to another page where you can choose "The Destructive Agrarian Reform Policies of the World Bank." In Section 3, "The Traps Inherent in Land Market Policies," the report lays out the propertization efforts of the World Bank]