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Politics and Economics of Land Reform in the Philippines: a survey
Fuwa, Nobuhiko - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
The Philippines has long been known for its high inequality in distribution of wealth and income; unlike many of its … the Philippines. As a result, the issue of land reform (or ‘agrarian reform’ as more commonly called in the Philippines … of the 20th century; nevertheless land reform in the Philippines has been, and still is, an unfinished business. Against …
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Thanks but no thanks : a new policy to reduce land conflict
Dufwenberg, Martin; Köhlin, Gunnar; Martinsson, Peter; … - 2014
Land conflicts in developing countries are costly. An important policy goal is to create respect for borders. This often involves mandatory, expensive interventions. We propose a new policy design, which in theory promotes neighborly relations at low cost. A salient feature is the option to...
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Land ceiling legislations, land acquisition and de-industrialisation: theory and evidence from the Indian states
Pal, Sarmistha; Chowdhury, Prabal Roy; Saher, Zoya - 2021
We examine the impact of legislated land ceiling size on capital investment and industrialisation in the Indian states. India's land ceiling legislations of 1960s and 1970s imposed a ceiling on maximum land holdings and redistributed above-ceiling lands. These ceiling legislations, effectively...
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Land reform and productivity gains with multiple market imperfections
Ciaian, Pavel - 2007
This paper uses a model with transaction costs and imperfect competition in the land market to analyze the efficiency and welfare effects of land reforms. We show that removing only one imperfection may have very different efficiency and welfare effects than would otherwise result from reforms...
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Social and economic dimensions of land reform : a territorial aproach
Rusu, Marioara - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 155-160). 2017
Agricultural land represents one of the most valuable natural resources of a country, being both a significant form of national wealth, and an important source of economic and political power. The land reform has been a constant presence in the policy promoted by the governments leading Romania...
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Origins of Latin American inequality
Eslava, Francisco; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2023
How deep are the roots of Latin America's economic inequalities? In this chapter we survey both the history and the literature about the region's extreme economic disparities, focusing on the most recent academic contributions. We begin by documenting the broad patterns of national and...
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Chapter 65 Farm Size
Eastwood, Robert; Lipton, Michael; Newell, Andrew - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 4, (pp. 3323-3397). 2010
What patterns can be discerned in the distribution of farm sizes across countries and over time? How does the behavior of individual economic agents interact with the natural environment and general economic development to affect farm size? How has concerted human intervention, understood as...
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Investment and credit effects of land titling and registration:
de Laiglesia, Juan R. - 2005
This paper analyzes the importance of legal property documents in providing tenure security, enhancing agricultural investment incentives and easing access to credit. While theory predicts that better property rights on land can increase investment through increased security, enhanced trade...
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Land reform in Moldova: how viable are emerging peasant farms? An assessment referring to a recent World Bank study
Petrick, Martin - 2000
Based on a case study of two Moldovan regions, the paper challenges the favourable assessment of recently established peasant farms in a World Bank study by LERMAN et al. (1998). The main arguments in favour of a more critical view of the results of land privatisation and farm restructuring are...
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Rural Reforms, Agricultural Productivity, and the Biological Standard of Living in South Korea, 1941-1974
Rudolf, Robert - 2012
This paper analyzes effects of the Republic of Korea's two major rural reforms in 1950 and 1962/63 on agricultural productivity and individual well-being. The 1950 Land Reform resulted in a large-scale redistribution of land while 'green revolution'-type reforms in 1962/63 pushed forward the...
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