Private land ownership has contributed to this growth process—in part by allowing land to be reallocated to more efficient farmers who thereby increase aggregate output. In his early research on the reform, Hayami (1994) saw the new legal framework on land as a trigger to more efficient agriculture without fear that an inequitable agrarian structure would emerge (Hayami 1994; Ravallion and van de Walle 2006). This expectation was confirmed some 10 years later: an emerging, active land market contributed to more rapid poverty reduction, redirected land into the hands of the most efficient producers, and fostered agricultural diversification.