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Library Does Sharecropping Affect Productivity and Long-Term Investment? Evidence from West Bengal’s Tenancy Reforms

Does Sharecropping Affect Productivity and Long-Term Investment? Evidence from West Bengal’s Tenancy Reforms

Does Sharecropping Affect Productivity and Long-Term Investment? Evidence from West Bengal’s Tenancy Reforms

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января 2013
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oai:openknowledge.worldbank.org:10986/12185

Although transfer of agricultural land
ownership through land reform had positive impacts on
productivity, investment, and political empowerment in many
cases, institutional arrangements in West Bengal -- which
made tenancy heritable and imposed a prohibition on
subleasing -- imply that early land reform benefits may not
be sustained and gains from this policy remain well below
potential. Data from a listing of 96,000 households in 200
villages, complemented by a detailed survey of 1,800
owner-cum tenants, point toward binding policy constraints
and large contemporaneous inefficiency of share tenancy that
is exacerbated by strong disincentives to investment. A
conservative estimate puts the efficiency losses from such
arrangements in any period at 25 percent.

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Deininger, Klaus
Jin, Songqing
Yadav, Vandana

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