Land policies are of fundamental importance to sustainable growth, good governance, and the well-being of, and the economic opportunities open to, both rural and urban dwellers - particularly the poor. To this end, research on land policy, and analysis of interventions related to the subject,...

Drawing upon a unique farm survey in 2003, I find that in rural China, Full-scale Land Reallocation (FLR) are more likely to follow egalitarian rule and Partial-scale Land Reallocation (PLR) take productivity of households into consideration. Econometric evidences shows two main results. First,...

Although increased global demand for land has led to renewed interest in African land tenure, few models to address these issues quickly and at the required scale have been identified or evaluated. The case of Rwanda's nation-wide and relatively low-cost land tenure regularization program is...