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Galal, Ahmed; Razzaz, Omar M. - 2001

Land and real estate reforms have not been effective at achieving their objectives, in part because of how they have been designed and implemented. To be successful, reforms must become comprehensive in design, argue the authors, although implementation may be phased over time and take local...

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Health Systems in East Asia : What Can Developing Countries Learn from Japan and the Asian Tigers?

Wagstaff, Adam - 2012

The health systems of Japan and the Asian Tigers--Hong Kong (China), the Republic of Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan … corporatization. Korea's experience with a narrow benefit package shows the danger of providers shifting demand from insured services …. Experiences with diagnosis-related groups in Korea and Taiwan (China) point to cost-savings but also to possible knock-on effects …

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Land Price Effects of Informality, Farm Size, and Land Reform

Deininger, Klaus; Ali, Daniel Ayalew - 2025

This paper uses a rich set of geo-coded administrative and remotely sensed data on more than 1 million agricultural land transactions in Ukraine to explore how informality, size, and recent land reforms affect land prices. Three main findings are highlighted. First, absence of registered rights...

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Does Sharecropping Affect Productivity and Long-Term Investment? Evidence from West Bengal???s Tenancy Reforms

Deininger, Klaus W.; Jin, Songqing; Yadav, Vandana - 2013

Although transfer of agricultural land ownership through land reform had positive impacts on productivity, investment, and political empowerment in many cases, institutional arrangements in West Bengal -- which made tenancy heritable and imposed a prohibition on subleasing -- imply that early...

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Formalizing Rural Land Rights in West Africa : Early Evidence from a Randomized Impact Evaluation in Benin

Goldstein, Markus P.; Houngbedji, Kenneth; Kondylis, … - 2015

This paper presents early evidence from the first large-scale randomized-controlled trial of a land formalization program. The study examines the links between land demarcation and investment in rural Benin in light of a model of agricultural production under insecure tenure. The demarcation...

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The Price of Empowerment : Experimental Evidence on Land Titling in Tanzania

Ali, Daniel Ayalew; Collin, Matthew; Deininger, Klaus W.; … - 2014

This paper reports on a randomized field experiment that uses price incentives to address economic and gender inequality in land tenure formalization. During the 1990s and 2000s, nearly two dozen African countries proposed de jure land reforms extending access to formal, freehold land tenure to...

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Does Rising Landlessness Signal Success or Failure for Vietnam???s Agrarian Transition?

Van de Walle, Dominique; Ravallion, Martin - 2012

In the wake of reforms to establish a free market in land-use rights, Vietnam is experiencing a pronounced rise in rural landlessness. To some observers this is a harmless by-product of a more efficient economy, while to others it signals the return of the pre-socialist class-structure, with the...

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Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Rural Land Rental Restrictions : Evidence from India

Deininger, Klaus W.; Jin, Songqing; Nagarajan, Hari K. - 2012

Recognition of the potentially deleterious implications of inequality in opportunity originating in a skewed asset distribution has spawned considerable interest in land reforms. However, little attention has been devoted to fact that, in the longer term, the measures used to implement land...

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Property Rights in a Very Poor Country : Tenure Insecurity and Investment in Ethiopia

Ali, Daniel Ayalew; Dercon, Stefan; Gautam, Madhur - 2012

This paper provides evidence from one of the poorest countries of the world that the property rights matter for efficiency, investment, and growth. With all land state-owned, the threat of land redistribution never appears far off the agenda. Land rental and leasing have been made legal, but...

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Securing Property Rights in Transition : Lessons from Implementation of China's Rural Land Contracting Law

Deininger, Klaus W.; Jin, Songqing - 2012

This paper is motivated by the emphasis on secure property rights as a determinant of economic development in recent literature. The authors use village and household level information from about 800 villages throughout China to explore whether legal reform increased protection of land rights...

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