Property Rights, Productivity, and Common Property Resources: Insights from Rural Cambodia
Summary This paper uses data from the 2003/04 Cambodia Household Socioeconomic Survey to investigate the effects of property rights to land. Plots held with a paper documenting ownership in rural Cambodia are found to have higher productivity and land values than other plots, while property rights have weak effects on access to credit. The paper also investigates whether the introduction of private property rights leads to decreased availability of common property resources. The data offers only weak support for this hypothesis. The general insight is that policies to strengthen land property rights can have important, positive effects on the rural economy, even in an environment of low state capacity.
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2008
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Authors: | Markussen, Thomas |
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World Development. - Elsevier, ISSN 0305-750X. - Vol. 36.2008, 11, p. 2277-2296
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Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Keywords: | property rights agriculture common property resources Asia Cambodia |
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