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Communal land tenure exists as a minor system in Chile concurrently with the predomniant system of individual fee simple ownership although Chilean law does not provide for communal tennure. Communal holdings are found in the northern desert higlands in the northern dry-margin sector of the lands of Mediterranean climate and in the Araucanian indigenous sector in the far south. The lands remaining in communal tenure chiefly are of low productive capacity as dry farms of pasturelands. It is hypothesized that in a situation in which only a small fraction of the land is cultivable and the remainder is of low carrying capacity, the highly productive lands tend to become controlled by individual tennure, where as communal tenure tends to continue on lands of low carrying capacity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses major political issues on agrarian reform and structural change in Chile during the 1960s. Policy alternatives facing the government; Characteristics of the government's agrarian reform strategy; Problems facing the government's agrarian reform during the reign of President Salvador Allende.

Discusses the relationship between political integration and political stability in the context of the Chilean Agrarian Reform. Relationship between economic development, modernization and industrialization; Association of differentiation and integration with development and industrialization; Characteristics of land ownership in Chile; History of the rural union movement.

Analyzes the financial and investment activities of the Chilean Development Corp. from 1939-1964. Background on the corporation; Corporate goals and objectives; Investment funds, by type of source, of the corporation.