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Property rights and the rural land market in Latin America

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Journal Articles & Books
April, 1996
South America
Central America

Land distribution in Latin America is characterized by striking inequality. Notwithstanding the emergence of modern structures in some regions, a few huge land holdings are found alongside a large number of small ones. This situation has long been considered undesirable for reasons of social equity as well as for reasons of efficiency. The topic remains high on the political agenda.

Los derechos de propiedad y el mercado de la tierra rural en América Latina

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Journal Articles & Books
April, 1996
South America
Central America

La distribución de la tierra en América Latina se caracteriza por una notable asimetría. A pesar de que han surgido estructuras modernas en algunas regiones, junto a un número reducido de extensas propiedades se encuentra un gran número de unidades pequeñas, situación que desde hace tiempo se considera indeseable por razones de equidad y eficiencia.

Promoting food security in Rwanda through sustainable agricultural productivity : meeting the challenges of population pressure, land degradation, and poverty / Daniel C. Clay ... [et al.]

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December, 1995
Rwanda
Sub-Saharan Africa

The objective of this technical paper is to shed insights on ways of reversing the spiraling decline of the land and the economy in rural Rwanda, with focus on the forces behind productivity decline in the Rwandan agricultural sector.

Ownership and control in Chinese rangeland management since Mao: The case of free riding in Ningxia

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December, 1995
China
Eastern Asia
Oceania

With the introduction of rural reforms in the early 1980s, China broke with its
collectivist past and began the arduous transition from a centrally planned to a free
market economy. The People’s Communes – the institutional basis of
agriculture under Mao – were disbanded, and communal land was

Improving the measurement and analysis of African agricultural productivity : promoting complementarities between micro and macro data

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December, 1995
Sub-Saharan Africa

Report identifies numerous situations where poor data lead to incorrect estimates of African land and labor productivity. The report argues that better coordination of macro, meso, and micro data collection, reporting, and analysis efforts can lower costs and improve our ability to monitor trends and to quantify determinants of agricultural productivity.

The reconstruction of rural institutions

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December, 1995
Latin America and the Caribbean

At the end of the 1980s, most agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean shared the following features: an over-protected agricultural sector; strong intervention from the state; excessive regulations and obstacles to interactions with other economic agents; a static land market; and a bimodal type of productive organization, i.e.