The effect of incomplete land tenure contracts on agricultural investment and productivity in Cameroon
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Keywords
Security of land tenure contracts; moral hazard; sharecroppers; holdup.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O55 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Africa
- Q12 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
- Q15 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment
- Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2015-03-13 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-EFF-2015-03-13 (Efficiency & Productivity)
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