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Land rights, agricultural productivity, and deforestation in Viet Nam

Abman, Ryan; Carney, Conor - 2018

This paper studies the relationship between land tenure for smallholder agriculture and deforestation in Viet Nam. We … combine high resolution satellite data on deforestation with rich household and commune-level, biannual panel data. We study … deforestation holding constant the average intensive tenure (average share of land held in tenure among those with land title). We …

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Tenurial security and agricultural investment : evidence from Vietnam

Bellemare, Marc F.; Chua, Kenn; Santamaria, Julieth; Khoa Vu - 2018

In Vietnam, all lands belong to the state, who assigns usufruct rights to those lands to individuals and households. In 1993, the state gave 20-year usufruct rights to growers of annual crops, and 50-year usufruct rights to growers of perennial crops. In 2013, as the usufruct rights of growers...

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REDD+ as performance-based aid : general lessons and bilateral agreements of Norway

Angelsen, Arild - 2013

REDD+, when it officially became part of the international climate agenda in 2007, was an idea about payment to countries and projects for reducing emission from forests, with funding primarily from carbon markets. REDD+ has since become multi-objective; the policy focus has changed from payments...

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The impact of commercialization of rice on household welfare in rural Viet Nam

Cazzuffi, Chiara; McKay, Andrew D.; Perge, Emilie - 2018

The past 30 years have seen a consistent increase in agricultural commercialization in rural Viet Nam, at the same time when rural residents have moved increasingly into non-agricultural activities. The contribution of the latter to welfare improvement and poverty reduction is well known; in...

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Is there a gender bias in intergenerational mobility? : evidence from Cameroon

Fontep, Rose; Sen, Kunal - 2020

occupation and education for Cameroon. We find that both in occupation and education, intergenerational mobility is higher for …

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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...

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Land acquisition for industrialization and compensation of displaced farmers

Ghatak, Maitreesh; Mookherjee, Dilip - 2011

This 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 or a local government. There are three sets...

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A Phoenix in flames? : portfolio choice and violence in civil war in rural Burundi

Nillesen, Eleonora; Verwimp, Philip - 2010

This paper challenges the idea that farmers revert to subsistence farming when confronted with violence from civil war. Macro-economic evidence on economic legacies of civil war suggests that civil wars, while obviously disastrous in the short run, do not need to have persistent effects on long...

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Welfare dynamics in rural Viet Nam : learning from regular, high-quality panel data

McKay, Andrew D.; Singhal, Saurabh; Tarp, Finn - 2018

While many studies of welfare dynamics have been conducted using panel data sets with two or three waves, much richer insights can be obtained where more waves are available. This paper analyses this issue for the case of the Viet Nam Access to Resources Household Survey, a carefully collected...

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The gender gap in firm productivity in Rwanda : evidence from establishment and household enterprise data

Munyegera, Ggombe Kasim; Precious, Akampumuza - 2018

Rwanda is one of the countries with the best strategies for women empowerment and gender equality in Africa and globally. Nonetheless, some inequalities exist especially in education attainment. This study investigates the gender gaps in business performance using nationally representative...

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