This project investigates issues concerning (a) evolution of land inequality and the role of policies concerning land rights, and (b) accountability of local governments in developing countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. One component is a set of research papers on these issues in the context of West Bengal, India. The other component is an international conference on the topic of land inequality and land rights which examines related issues in a number of developing countries.
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Political Connections and Land-Related Investment in Rural VietnamPart of Journal Special Issue Land and Property Rights
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Evolution of Land Distribution in West Bengal 1967–2004Part of Journal Special Issue Land and Property Rights
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Are Land Reforms Granting Complete Property Rights Politically Risky?Part of Journal Special Issue Land and Property Rights
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Poverty and Land RedistributionPart of Journal Special Issue Land and Property Rights
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Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in AfricaPart of Journal Special Issue Land and Property Rights
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Land Acquisition for Industrialization and Compensation of Displaced FarmersPart of Journal Special Issue Land and Property Rights
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Intergenerational Mobility and Interpersonal Inequality in an African EconomyPart of Journal Special Issue Land and Property Rights
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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...
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Political Clientelism and CaptureWe provide a theory of political clientelism, which explains sources and determinants of political clientelism, the relationship between clientelism and elite capture, and their respective consequences for allocation of public services, welfare, and...
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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...
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Long-term Effects of Land Reform on Human Capital AccumulationWe 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...
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Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in AfricaAlthough 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...
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Is It What You Inherited Or What You Learnt?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...
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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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Theme: Past, 2010-11