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Institutional differences across resource-based economiesTo predict economic success and failure, academics and policymakers alike are interested in the differences in institutional structures across natural resource-based economies...
Economic growth Economics Political scienceWorking Paper
Land issues in Vietnam 2006–14: Markets, property rights, and investmentThis paper uses five waves of the Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey (VARHS) to analyse land issues in Vietnam from a number of different angles...
Household survey Households Land tenureJournal Article
Property Rights and Productivity: the Case of Joint Land-Titling in VietnamThis paper explores the effect of land titling on agricultural productivity in Vietnam and the productivity effects of single versus joint titling for husband and wife...
Agriculture Economic development Land useJournal Article
Political Connections and Land-Related Investment in Rural VietnamPart of Journal Special Issue Land and Property Rights
Credit Informal sector InvestmentsJournal Article
Trees, Tenure and Conflict: Rubber in Colonial BeninPart of Journal Special Issue Land and Property Rights
Agricultural industries Land reform Land tenureJournal Article
Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa: Pilot Evidence from RwandaPart of Journal Special Issue Land and Property Rights
Finance (Agriculture) Land tenure Laws and legislation (Land use)Journal Article
Land Acquisition for Industrialization and Compensation of Displaced FarmersPart of Journal Special Issue Land and Property Rights
Compensation management Industrialization Land tenureWorking Paper
Cambodia’s Land Management and Administration ProjectThis paper presents the case of World Bank support to the mass titling component of the Cambodia Land Management and Administration Project...
Agriculture Land tenure Laws and legislation (Land use)Book Chapter
Why Are the Elite in China Motivated and Able to Promote Growth?From the book: The Role of Elites in Economic Development
Communist Economic development Political scienceBook Chapter
Elites and Property RightsFrom the book: The Role of Elites in Economic Development
Comparative economics International economic relations Right of propertyBlog
From the Editor's Desk (December 2011)
Tony Addison With the end of the year fast approaching, we bring you the last Angle of 2011. Here in Helsinki, the shortest day of the year is nearly upon us when we will have six hours of daylight...
Finance Climate change Right of propertyWorking Paper
The Dynamics of Land Titling Regularization and Market DevelopmentWe study the effects of titles on parcel valuation and urban land market development (real estate transfers, rentals, and mortgages), and the dynamics of deregularization by exploiting a natural experiment in the allocation of land titles to very poo...
Deregulation Land reform Land tenureWorking Paper
Security of Property Rights for Whom?Recent research regarding property rights and economic development often treats property rights security in a country as homogeneous, although protecting the private entitlements of some can entail preventing others from claiming and controlling thos...
Equality and inequality Law MinoritiesWorking Paper
Long-term Effects of Land Reform on Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from West BengalWe use data on inter-generational gains in educational attainment by some 500,000 individuals in 200 West Bengal villages to explore gender-differentiated impacts of land reform on human capital accumulation at the individual level...
Human capital Land reform Land tenureWorking Paper
Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa: Pilot Evidence from RwandaAlthough recent developments greatly increased interest in African land tenure, few models to address these issues at the required scale have been identified or evaluated...
Finance (Agriculture) Land tenure Laws and legislation (Land use)Working Paper
Institutional Reforms Debate and FDI Flows to MENA Region: Does One ‘Best’ Fit All?The paper revisits the policy debate on institutional reform approaches to property rights protection and empirically examines it in the context of FDI flows to the Middle East and Northern Africa region (MENA)...
Institutional economics International trade Foreign investments