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reduce the poverty of peasants and indigenous people. Almost 30 years after this reform was enacted, it is necessary to …
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This paper uses data from a household survey to estimate changes in land distribution in rural West Bengal between 1967-2004 and decompose these into contributions of different factors. There was a substantial drop in land per household and land per capita, while within-village inequality rose....
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exposure to the program. -- land reform ; poverty ; impact evaluation …
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This paper investigates how a development intervention which targets extremely poor households with investment capital influences relationships between those households and the landowning elite. It places this investigation in the context of the "agricultural reformation" of rural Bangladesh,...
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This paper uses panel data at commune, household, and plot levels to study the causes and effects of agricultural land fragmentation in rural Viet Nam. We focus on both inter-farm fragmentation (the division of land into many small farms) and intra-farm fragmentation (the division of each farm...
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This paper studies the relationship between land tenure for smallholder agriculture and deforestation in Viet Nam. We combine high resolution satellite data on deforestation with rich household and commune-level, biannual panel data. We study two margins of tenure security, whether a household...
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Due to increasing population pressure on limited cultivable land in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), farm size has been shrinking, fallow periods have been shortened, and soil fertility has been declining. In accordance with the Boserupian evolutionary theory and the Hayami-Ruttan induced...
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Brazil's recent growth has been intensely pro-poor, and both poverty and inequality have declined significantly in the … last decade. It has been suggested that Brazil's unexpected successes are the outcome of a new model of development. The … paper argues that Brazil's unique combination of economic and social policies is at the root of its inclusive growth, but it …
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During the 2000s, Brazil experienced slow economic growth and a substantial improvement in labour market indicators …. From 2001 to 2012, Brazil grew less than the Latin American average. However, the unemployment rate decreased, the … labour earnings went up. At the same time, poverty and inequality largely diminished. The international economic crisis had a …
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negatively by the crisis, and labour earnings and poverty indicators had not recovered their pre-crisis levels by 2012. …
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