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by Tony Addison 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...

• Finance
• Climate change
• Right of property

Journal Article

This 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. Using a plot-fixed-effects approach our results show that obtaining a land title...

• Agriculture
• Economic development
• Land use

Journal Special Issue

A property rights regime covers rights to use, lease, donate, bequest, and sell assets or collect the incomes generated by assets. A clear and transparent property rights regime facilitates investment and economic growth. While private property is...

• Employee ownership
• Entrepreneurship
• Right of property

Working Paper

The economies in transition are experiencing unique changes in the distribution of assets. The growth in the share of private ownership is occurring through the privatization of state-owned assets and through the birth of private firms. The changes...

• Equality and inequality
• Poverty
• Privatization

Working Paper

• Economic development
• Right of property
• Technological innovations

Working Paper

We 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...

• Deregulation
• Land reform
• Land tenure

Working Paper

This 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...

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

Working Paper

This 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...

• Household survey
• Households
• Land tenure

Working Paper

The paper presents a theoretical model that seeks to answer the question of why former squatter settlements tend to upgrade/redevelop at a slower pace than otherwise similar settlements originating in the formal sector. We argue that squatter...

• Econometrics
• Institutional economics
• Land use

Book Chapter

Part of Book The Poor under Globalization in Asia, Latin America, and Africa

• Agriculture
• Households
• International trade

Book Chapter

Part of Book Ownership and Governance of Enterprises

• Cooperative societies
• Institutional economics
• Right of property

Book Chapter

Part of Book Transition and Institutions

• Business enterprises
• Economic policy (Business enterprises)
• Corporate governance

Book Chapter

Part of Book Linking the Formal and Informal Economy

• Bureaucracy
• Democracy
• Informal sector

Book Chapter

Part of Book Ownership and Governance of Enterprises

• Employee ownership
• Labour costs
• Right of property

Journal Article

This paper discusses how the theory on the role of institutions in development can be improved, by critically examining the current orthodox discourse on institutions. To understand the relationship between institutions and economic development, it...

• Financial institutions
• Institutional economics
• Labour law

Working Paper

The move towards multiparty democracy in Zambia in the early 1990s was heralded as the beginning of a new era of more pluralist politics in Africa. The new government’s willingness to adopt economic reforms and policies, hitherto resisted, was also...

• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development
• Primary commodities