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

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

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

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Date of publication
March 2012
ISBN / Resource ID
oai:openknowledge.worldbank.org:10986/5622

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 the fact that, in the longer-term, the measures used to implement land reforms, especially rental restrictions, could negatively affect productivity. Use of state level data on rental restrictions, together with a nationally representative survey from India suggests that, contrary to original intentions, rental restrictions negatively affect productivity and equity by reducing scope for efficiency-enhancing rental transactions that benefit poor producers. Simulations suggest that, by doubling the number of producers with access to land through rental, from about 15 million currently, liberalization of rental markets could have far-reaching impacts.

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Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s)

Deininger, Klaus
Jin, Songqing
Nagarajan, Hari K.

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