Do overlapping property rights reduce agricultural investment ? evidence from Uganda
By K. Deininger, D. Ali. 2007
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The need for land-related investment to ensure sustainable land management and increase productivity of land use is widely recognized. However, there is little rigorous evidence on the effects of property rights for increasing agricultural productivity and contributing toward poverty reduction in Africa. Whether and by how much overlapping property rights reduce investment incentives, and the scope for policies to counter such disincentives, are thus important policy issues. Using information on parcels under ownership and usufruct by the same household from a nationally representative survey in Uganda, the authors find significant disincentives associated with overlapping property rights on short and long-term investments. The paper combines this result with information on crop productivity to obtain a rough estimate of the magnitudes involved. The authors make suggestions on ways to eliminate such inefficiencies.
Subfields: Soil Science
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- Land Registration, Governance, and Development : Evidence and Implications for Policy (2009, unknown): “Tenant registration is estimated to have no investment effect while measures to strengthen occupancy rights attenuate—but fail to eliminate fully—investment disincentives originating in overlapping rights (Deininger and Ali 2008).”
- Land tenure differences and investment in land improvement measures: Theoretical and empirical analyses (2011, background): “The significance of this debate has attracted a great deal of attention among economists (Binswanger and Rosenzweig 1986; Besley, 1995; Quisumbing et al., 2001a; Brasselle et al., 2002; Place and Otsuka, 2002; Jacoby et al., 2002; Banerjee and Ghatak, 2004; Goldstein and Udry, 2008; Deininger and Al”
- Land Reforms, Poverty Reduction, and Economic Growth: Evidence from India (2008, unknown): “Evidence from Uganda."”