| Description |
1 online resource (23 pages) |
| Series |
IMF working paper, 2227-8885 ; WP/04/158 |
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IMF working paper ; WP/04/158.
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| Contents |
""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. LAND DISTRIBUTION AND DEVELOPMENT""; ""III. MEASURING LAND INEQUALITY""; ""IV. EMPIRICAL RESULTS""; ""V. CONCLUSION"" |
| Summary |
There are several theories linking land inequality with aspects of economic development. Empirical work on these theories has attempted to establish a relationship between land inequality and institutions, financial development, and education. This research, though, has relied on measures of land inequality that capture only inequality within the class of landholders, ignoring completely the issue of landlessness. This omission raises suspicion about the usefulness of those empirical results. We use a new measure of the breadth of landholdings across the agricultural population to address this issue. We test the proposed relationships regarding land inequality and development using the new measure. The regressions fail to find significant and robust relationships between land inequality of either type and institutions or financial development. We do find that lower land inequality across agricultural populations, but not inequality within the landholding class, is associated with greater public provision of education |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Land use -- Economic aspects
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Education -- Costs.
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Real property -- Economic aspects
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Real property -- Economic aspects
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Education -- Costs
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Land use -- Economic aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Vollrath, Dietrich, author.
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International Monetary Fund. African Department, issuing body
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| ISBN |
1282018043 |
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9781282018044 |
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9781451902747 |
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1451902743 |
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9781451857610 |
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1451857616 |
| ISSN |
2227-8885 |
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