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Trees, tenure and conflict: Rubber in colonial Benin
Fenske, James - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Tree crops have changed land tenure in Africa. Planters 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 region of colonial Nigeria. Planters initially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685064
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Land Titling and Investment In Tanzania: An Empirical Investigation
Kassa, Woubet - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The role of property rights in resource allocation has been one of the central themes in development economics. There exists extensive theoretical arguments that property rights in land are closely associated with the productive efficiency of agricultural resources as well as investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108771
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Property rights and investment in agriculture: Evidence for Ghana
Abdulai, Awudu; Owusu, Victor; Goetz, Renan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This article develops a theoretical framework to examine the relationship between land tenure agreements and households’ investment in land improvement and conservation measures. It then analyzes this relationship with a multivariate probit model based on a survey data from a sample of 560...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652030
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Does land abundance explain African institutions?
Fenske, James - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
I show how abundant land and scarce labor shaped African institutions before colonial rule. I present a model in which exogenous land quality and endogenously evolving population determine the existence of land rights, slavery, and polygyny. I use cross-sectional data on pre-colonial African...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530722
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Land abundance and economic institutions: Egba land and slavery, 1830-1914
Fenske, James - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The ``land abundance'' view of African history uses sparse population to explain economic institutions. I provide supporting evidence from the Egba of Nigeria. I use early colonial court records to show that Egba institutions fit the theory's predictions. Before 1914, the Egba had poorly defined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008498476
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Rural class differentiation in Nigeria: Theory and practice - a quantitative approach in the case of Nupeland
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1979
The knowledge of social stratification within the peasantry is a decisive precondition of sustainable economic and political measures for an effective support of agricultural production in least developed countries. This is one of the reasons why also in Nigeria social scientist focus on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622095
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Profitability as a basic criterion of efficient management
Růčková, Petra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The paper deals with the application of the basic indicator of evaluating profitability in the context with alternative … traded on the stock exchange by means of the basic comparative indicator of profitability of equity in cooperation with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835494
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An empirical investigation of the effects of concentration on profitability among US banks
Fiona, Tregenna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper analyses the effects of concentration on profitability in the US banking sector from 1994-2005, using bank … relationship between concentration and profitability. Strong support is found for the Structure-Conduct-Performance hypothesis, as … and specifications, and to various measures of profitability and of concentration. Further analysis sheds light on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835748
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Falling Rate of Profit and Overaccumulation in Marx and Keynes
Tsoulfidis, Lefteris - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The question of the long-run prospects of profitability and its association with the stage of capital accumulation have … demand and the way in which it affects profitability and capital accumulation might be gainfully used for the formulation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009418516
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Economic efficiency analysis of vegetable production systems during 2011-2014
Ursu, Ana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Economic efficiency plays an important role in the foundation and farm level decisions, constituting a basic criterion in assessing the level of economic activity and development prospects. The study aimed to analyze the economic efficiency of crop production systems, measured through indicators...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011156976