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Professor Tarp has four decades of experience in academic and applied development economics research and teaching. His field experience covers more than two decades of in-country work in 35 countries across Africa and the developing world more...
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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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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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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Reputation, Policy Risk, and Land UseSince 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...
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Migration and Inheritance Practices in the Bolivian AltiplanoMost 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...
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Political Connections and Investment in Rural VietnamThis paper uses household panel data from rural Vietnam to explore the effects of having a relative in a position of political or bureaucratic power on farmers’ agricultural investment decisions. Our main result is that households significantly...
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Can a Populist Political Party Bear the Risk of Granting Complete Property Rights?The Mexican land reform, one of the most sweeping in the world, proceeded in two steps: it granted peasants highly incomplete property rights on more than half of the Mexican territory starting in 1914, creating strong economic and political...
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Land Acquisition for Industrialization and Compensation of Displaced FarmersThis paper addresses the question of how farmers displaced by acquisition of agricultural land for the purpose of industrialization ought to be compensated. Prior to acquisition, the farmers are leasing in land from a landlord, either a private owner...
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Evolution of Land Distribution in West Bengal 1967-2004This paper uses data from a household survey to estimate changes in land distribution in rural West Bengal between 1967-2004 and decompose these into contributions of different factors. There was a substantial drop in land per household and land per...
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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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Transformation of the Family under Rising Land PressureIf we understand well the individualization of land tenure rules under conditions of growing land scarcity and increased market integration, much less is known about the mode of evolution of the farm-cum-family units possessing the land. Inspired by...
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Trees, Tenure and ConflictTree crops have changed land tenure in Africa. Farmers have acquired more permanent, alienable rights, but have also faced disputes with competing claimants and the state. I show that the introduction of Para rubber had similar effects in the Benin...
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