Policy Interest Elsewhere
In Zimbabwe, government coalition partners the Movement for Democratic Change has land value taxation as its policy. Since 2000, there have been political expressions of interest in the policy and analysis in Belgium, Ethiopia, Republic of South Africa and other countries. The governments of Thailand and Hungary have shown some sympathy with the policy.
There are local campaigns to introduce it in many other countries, including South Korea and the United Kingdom (where a broad assembly of independent and politically-aligned groups advocate and advance the case for land value taxation). The IU works internationally and at the United Nations in support of the policy. In 1990, several economists wrote to then President Mikhail Gorbachev suggesting that Russia use Land Value Taxation in its transition towards a free market economy: its failure to do so has been argued as causal in the rise of the Oligarchs.
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