Land Reforms, Poverty Reduction, and Economic Growth: Evidence from India

By K. Deininger, Songqing Jin, H. Nagarajan. 2008

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Abstract Recognition of the importance of institutions that provide security of property rights and relatively equal access to economic resources to a broad cross-section of society has renewed interest in the potential of asset redistribution, including land reforms. Empirical analysis of the impact of such policies is, however, scant and often contradictory. We use panel household data from India, together with state-level variation in the land reform implementation, to address some of the deficiencies of earlier studies. Results suggest that land reform had a significant and positive impact on income growth and accumulation of human and physical capital. Policy implications are drawn, especially from the fact that the observed impact of land reform seems to have declined over time.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science, Urban Studies

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• The impact of land property rights interventions on investment and agricultural productivity in developing countries: a systematic review (2017, unknown): “−0.300 −0.133 0.033 Ethiopia 2003−2007 (Deininger et al., 2007) Rwanda 2007−2010 (Ali et al., 2011) 0 Figure 8.”