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Property Rights for the Poor: Effects of Land Titling
Galiani, Sebastian; Schargrodsky, Ernesto - 2010
Secure property rights are considered a key determinant of economic development. The evaluation of the causal effects of property rights, however, is a difficult task as their allocation is typically endogenous. To overcome this identification problem, we exploit a natural experiment in the...
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Village Political Economy, Land Tenure Insecurity, and the Rural to Urban Migration Decision: Evidence from China
Giles, John T.; Mu, Ren - 2014
This paper investigates the impact of land tenure insecurity on the migration decisions of China's rural residents. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468155
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Land rights insecurity and temporary migration in rural China
de la Rupelle, Maëlys; Quheng, Deng; Shi, Li; … - 2009
Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking … destination areas. In this paper, we show that this temporary feature of migration can be linked to land rights insecurity. As … village land ownership remains collective and as land use rights can be periodically reallocated, individual out-migration can …
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Land titles, credit markets and wealth distributions
MacGee, James C. - 2006
Does the existence of formal title to land and real estate matter for the distribution of wealth? This paper reviews the empirical literature on the economic impact of land and real estate administration systems across countries. This paper argues that a functioning credit market for secured...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284883
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Quantitative Messung der Reurbanisierung - Quellen, Begriffe und Ergebnisse der Wanderungsstatistik
Eichhorn, Lothar - In: Reurbanisierung zwischen Wunsch und Wirklichkeit: Ein …, (pp. 67-74). 2019
nationalen Binnenwanderung durch die Zuzüge aus dem Ausland zu beachten, um Fehlschlüsse zu vermeiden. Ganz "rein" lässt sich mit …If migration statistics are used to examine the phenomenon of reurbanisation it is necessary to consider the … superimposition of relocations from abroad on national internal migration in order to avoid drawing misleading conclusions. It is not …
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Endogenous Institutional Change and Economic Development: A Micro-Level Analysis of Transmission Channels
Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2009
-rural migration flows to geographically well-endowed regions which in turn give rise to migration-induced land scarcity. Land scarcity …
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Do emerging land markets promote forestland appropriation? Evidence from Indonesia
Krishna, Vijesh V.; Pascual, Unai; Qaim, Matin - 2014
This paper empirically examines the emergence and functioning of land markets and their impacts on deforestation in Sumatra, Indonesia. While the evolution of land markets is expected to promote deforestation activities by rural households, we find no sizeable impact, due to two major reasons....
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The Chilean agricultural transformation during the second half of the twentieth century: A story of institutional change
Saravia, Antonio - 2008
The second half of the twentieth century witnessed a dramatic transformation of the Chilean agricultural sector. From accounting for only five percent of the value of Chile's total exports in the late 1960s, agricultural exports grew to account for more than 30 percent of this value in the mid...
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Land Rental Market Activity in Agrarian Reform Areas: Evidence from the Philippines
Bresciani, F.; Ballesteros, Marife M. - 2008
Using data from 3,120 farm households surveyed in 2000 and 2006, the paper tests for factors that affect the degree and extent of households' participation in the rural land rental market. The survey period coincided with the full implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program...
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The gradual erosion of the social security function of customary land tenure arrangements in lineage-based societies
Platteau, Jean-Philippe - 2002
Customary rules governing access to land and other natural resources in village societies have characteristics that allow them to fulfil social security functions and achieve equity objectives. This is true of both common-property resources and land parcels held under individualized tenure....
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