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The effects of land titling in Tanzania
Aikaeli, Jehovaness; Markussen, Thomas - 2017
We use household survey data to investigate the effects of formal, private property rights to agricultural land on agricultural investment, land valuation and access to credit in Tanzania. Results show that while there are no detectable effects of formal, private land property rights (written...
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The theory and practice of agriculture, growth, and development in Africa
Badiane, Ousmane; Makombe, Tsitsi - 2014
shifting roles of industry vs. agriculture and that of government, and the public sector vs. markets and the private sector … agriculture therein, and the pace of structural transformation in Africa over the last 50 years. The evolution has involved …. Government intervention in favour of industrialization in the 1960s-1970s resulted in the neglect of agriculture, poor growth …
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Institutional differences across resource-based economies
Teksoz, Utku; Kalcheva, Katerina - 2016
To predict economic success and failure, academics and policymakers alike are interested in the differences in institutional structures across natural resource-based economies. This paper uses a political economy framework to examine the effect of institutional variables on per capita...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472013
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Agribusinesses, smallholder tenure security, and plot-level investments : evidence from rural Tanzania
Sipangule, Kacana - 2017
The last decade has witnessed an increase in the interest in agricultural land in developing countries. While a great deal of attention has been paid to understanding the impacts of this increased interest in agricultural land, very little is known about how local smallholder communities are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011639675
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Land issues in Vietnam 2006 - 14 : markets, property rights, and investment
Markussen, Thomas - 2015
This paper uses five waves of the Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey (VARHS) to analyse land issues in Viet Nam 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 to present descriptive results on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337152
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No taxation without property rights : formalization of property rights on land and tax revenues from individuals in sub-Saharan Africa
Nistotskaya, Marina; D'Arcy, Michelle - 2021
The arguments that property rights and taxation positively affect development are well established in separate literatures, but the link between property rights and taxation is understudied. To address this gap, we theorize that formalization of individual property rights facilitates economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012798722
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Institutional change and persistence : what does the long-run evidence tell us?
Savoia, Antonio; Sen, Kunal; Tagem, Abrams Mbu Enow - 2024
There is a broad agreement that political and economic institutions matter for long-term development. Yet relatively little is known as to how to adopt good quality institutions and reform weak or poor institutions, for which one needs to know how institutions change. This paper provides a...
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Scoping study on the evolution of industry in Ghana
Ackah, Charles; Adjasi, Charles Komla Delali; Turkson, … - 2014
This paper chronicles the evolution of industry in Ghana over the post-independence era from an inward over … resource endowments. Over the last couple of years, industry in Ghana, dominated since independence by the manufacturing … and gas. Industry is mainly dominated by micro and small firms, privately-owned and mainly located within urban areas in …
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How many manufacturing firms are there in Mozambique?
Schou, Søren; Cardoso, José - 2014
This paper addresses the issue of poor data on Mozambican manufacturing firms. A new dataset (the merged manufacturing database) is merged from provincial industrial databases from each of Mozambique's 11 provinces. The new dataset is assessed by comparing it to the latest manufacturing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010349433
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Incentives to labour migration and agricultural productivity : the Bayesian perspective
Djuikom, Marie Albertine - 2018
Understanding how internal labour migration affects the agricultural sector is important for all developing countries whose markets do not work well or are non-existent. In fact, even if the movement out of the agricultural sector can be viewed as a process to reach development for many African...
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