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From the Editor's desk (October 2011)
Tony Addison As autumn moves into winter in Helsinki, it is time to bring you the October edition of UNU-WIDER’s newsletter, WIDER Angle. Regular...
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Tenure Insecurity, Climate Variability, and Renting-Out Decisions Among Female Smallholder Farmers in EthiopiaLand tenure arrangements in Africa are generally skewed in favour of males. Compared to males, female plot owners face complex sets of constraints and systemic high tenure insecurity which culminate in low yields. In order to obtain better returns...
Policy Brief
Access to Land and Land Policy ReformsThe objective of this research and policy brief is to analyse different mechanisms of access to land for the rural poor in an era when redistribution through expropriative land reform is largely inconsistent with the forces of the political economy...
Journal Article
Tenure Insecurity, Climate Variability and Renting out Decisions among Female Small-Holder Farmers in EthiopiaPart of Journal Special Issue Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries
Journal Article
The Efficiency of India's CitiesOne reason for unsatisfactory public service delivery in Indian cities is that city finances are in poor condition. Recent research shows that given the fragmented institutional arrangements for land in India's cities, there is a case for...
Journal Special Issue
Land and Property RightsThis special issue of the Journal of Development Economics originates from a UNU-WIDER research project on land inequality and decentralized governance in LDCs. The research began in late 2010 with Dilip Mookherjee and Pranab Bardhan jointly...
Journal Article
Weather Shocks and Cropland Decisions in Rural MozambiqueEconomic development in low income settings is often associated with an expansion of higher-value agricultural activities. Since these activities often bring new risks, an understanding of cropland decisions and how these interact with shocks is...
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Changes in Land Tenure and Agricultural Intensification in Sub-Saharan AfricaDue to increasing population pressure on limited cultivable land in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), farm size has been shrinking, fallow periods have been shortened, and soil fertility has been declining. In accordance with the Boserupian...
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The Forgotten Property RightsStudies of land property rights usually focus on tenure security and transfer rights. Rights to determine how to use the land are regularly ignored. However, user rights are often limited. Relying on a unique Vietnamese panel data set at both...
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Growth and EntitlementsIn the preceding pages we have attempted a detailed rebuttal of the view that, given the prevailing structural constraints imposed by the unequal distribution of land and other assets, growth through Green Revolution must impoverish, or at best by...
Book Chapter
Access to LandBy applying a unified framework, this book examines the impact of land tenure reforms on poverty reduction and natural resource management in countries in Africa and Asia with highly diverse historical contexts. These land tenure reforms include Land...
Working Paper
Land rights, agricultural productivity, and deforestation in VietnamThis paper studies the relationship between land tenure for smallholder agriculture and deforestation in Vietnam. We combine high resolution satellite data on deforestation with rich household and commune-level, biannual panel data. We study two...
Book Chapter
Land Tenure and Agricultural Intensification in Sub-Saharan AfricaFrom the book: Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics, Vol. 2.
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Extreme poverty - the poorest are being left behind
At our 30th Anniversary Conference we took the chance to interview Martin Ravallion of Georgetown University—we asked him to discuss his recent work...
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Barriers or catalysts? Traditional institutions and social mobility in rural IndiaWe examine how village-level social group dominance affects the educational and occupational mobility of minority and other social groups in rural India across multiple generations. We distinguish between upper caste and own-group dominance and...
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Changing Land-tenure Arrangements and Access to Primary Assets under GlobalizationThis paper illustrates how, in relation to globalization, formal and informal land institutions are prone to generate conflict over land rights and examines the implications of such conflicts on security levels of access to primary assets for the...
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PROCEDE: a failed programme to reduce poverty and inequalities in MexicoThis paper analyses the land tenure reform that took place in Mexico in 1992 and its PROCEDE programme (Ejido Rights Certification Programme). It considers the counter-agrarian reform’s objectives, the context in which it was proposed, and the...
Journal Article
Land rights, agricultural productivity, and deforestationPart of Journal Special Issue Understanding agricultural development and change
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Land issues in Vietnam 2006–14This 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. The VARHS provides panel data at plot as well as household level and I use this rich data set...
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Can Climate Finance Achieve Gender Equity in Developing Countries?We develop the climate finance-gender equity framework in this paper and use the ‘contextual-procedural-distributive’ equity as a lens of analysis to examine how climate finance helps challenge, and reinforce, gender inequities in the mitigation...
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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. This was a project for which there was clear national demand, as evidenced by the fact that the Cambodian...
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Social and political capital in rural VietnamThis paper exploits five waves of the Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey (VARHS) to investigate issues of social and political capital in rural Vietnam. I analyse membership of the Communist Party, ‘mass organizations’ (Farmers’ Union...
Book Chapter
Women and Landed Property in Urban IndiaPart of Book Urbanization and Development in Asia
Journal Article
Land Governance, Gender Equality and DevelopmentPart of Journal Special Issue Aid for Gender Equality and Development
Working Paper
Land Ownership Inequality and the Income Distribution Consequences of Economic GrowthWhile unequal land ownership has a role to play in explaining historically high levels of income inequality, this paper asks what role agrarian structure plays in explaining contemporary trends of increasing income inequality. Using a Gini...
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Land tenure security and internal migration in TanzaniaIn this paper we study the impact of tenure security on rural to urban migration of household members over the age of 15. Using three waves of the Tanzanian National Panel Survey (NPS) data, we show that tenure security is associated with lower...
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Inter- and intra-farm land fragmentation in VietnamThis paper uses panel data at commune, household, and plot levels to study the causes and effects of agricultural land fragmentation in rural Vietnam. We focus on both inter-farm fragmentation (the division of land into many small farms) and intra...
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Rising Wealth Inequality and Changing Social Structure in Rural China, 1988-95The paper finds that a new system of social stratification is emerging in rural China in the wake of economic reforms, one that is far less equal than what preceded it. As part of this trend, wealth inequality has increased markedly in a short period...
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Land Reform and Landholdings in BrazilLand and wealth are closely related in rural Brazil, a country characterized by high levels of inequality in terms of income or landholdings. After presenting a historical retrospective of land concentration and land reform in Brazil, this study...
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Poverty and Land DistributionWhile land reforms have long been motivated as a potential policy lever of rural growth and development, there is remarkably little evidence of the direct impacts of such reforms. In an effort to fill this lacunae, this paper examines South Africa's...
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