Working Paper

• Contracts
• Land tenure
• Risk

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Economics of climate change impacts on developing countries

• Agriculture
• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Land tenure

Journal Article

One 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...

• Land tenure
• Public investments
• Public utilities

Journal Special Issue

This 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...

• Economic development
• Land tenure
• Land use

Working Paper

Land 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...

• Equality and inequality
• Land reform
• Land tenure

Working Paper

While 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...

• Economic development
• Land reform
• Land tenure

Working Paper

Since 1999, China has spent RMB 50 billion (about US$7 billion) to implement the ‘Grain for Green’ programme, the largest land retirement programme in the developing world. From 1999 to 2003, over 7.2 million hectares of agricultural land were...

• Conservation of natural resources
• Farm produce
• Forests and forestry

Working Paper

Most theoretical approaches to inheritance assume that parents are the key actors of bequest decisions. However, in a context of important migration, children may play an active role in the inheritance process. Based on a unique data set collected at...

• Inheritance and succession
• Land tenure
• Land use

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We 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. While there are...

• Human capital
• Land reform
• Land tenure

Working Paper

Although recent developments greatly increased interest in African land tenure, few models to address these issues at the required scale have been identified or evaluated. Rwanda’s nation-wide land tenure regularization programme is of great interest...

• Finance (Agriculture)
• Land tenure
• Laws and legislation (Land use)

Working Paper

Using original survey data on Senegal that include an individualized measure of consumption, we study the role played by land inheritance, other bequests and parental background as influences on an adult’s economic welfare and economic activities...

• Consumption
• Equality and inequality
• Land tenure

Working Paper

In this study an attempt has been made to assess the potential of land as a municipal financing tool in four Indian cities, to enable better public service delivery and attainment of the MDGs. The institutional arrangements for land use are...

• Land tenure
• Public investments
• Public utilities

Working Paper

This paper reviews the principal source of India’s wealth distribution statistics, which is constituted by the five decennial Reserve Bank of India National Sample Survey Organization Surveys on Debt and Investment of 1961-62, 1971-72, 1981-82, 1991...

• Equality and inequality
• Households
• Land tenure

Working Paper

Does the existence of formal title to land and real estate matter for the distribution of wealth? This paper reviews the empirical literature on the economic impact of land and real estate administration systems across countries. This paper argues...

• Credit
• Equality and inequality
• Land tenure

Working Paper

Land 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...

• Agriculture
• Econometric models (Economic development)
• Land tenure

Working Paper

In 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...

• Migration
• Land tenure
• Tenure security