Land Reforms and Economic Development

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Land Reforms and Economic Development

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Gersbach, Hans
Siemers, Lars

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We demonstrate that there is a nexus between land transfers and human capital formation. A sequence of land redistributions enables the beneficiaries to educate their children and thus to escape from poverty and to overcome child labour. We find that open access to land markets should be prohibited for beneficiaries for some time. Moreover, a temporary state of inequality among the poor is unavoidable. Finally, a successful land reform allows for the transition of a society from an agriculture-based state of poverty to a human capital-based developed economy.

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Paper provided by C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers in its series CEPR Discussion Papers with number 5184.

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Find related papers by JEL classification:
I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
O11 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
O15 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
Q15 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation

This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

NEP-AFR-2005-09-29 (Africa)
NEP-AGR-2005-09-29 (Agricultural Economics)
NEP-ALL-2005-09-29 (All new papers)
NEP-DEV-2005-09-29 (Development)

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Nagarajan, Hari K. & Jin, Songqing & Deininger, Klaus, 2007. "Land reforms, poverty reduction, and economic growth : evidence from India," Policy Research Working Paper Series 4448, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]

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