Access to Land, Rural Poverty, and Public Action [Hardcover]

Redesigning access to land to increase efficiency and reduce poverty is back on the policy agenda. This book broadens the analysis of alternative options beyond state-led redistributions to consider channels of access such as inheritance and inter-vivos transfers, intra-household and intra-community land allocations, community titling of open access resources, the break up of common property resources and the individualization of rights, decollectivization, land markets, and land rental contracts. Each of these channels of access to land is analyzed, and recommendations made to enhance their effectiveness for poverty reduction.

1. Access to land and Land Policy Reforms,Alain de Janvry, Jean-Philippe Platteau, Gustavo Gordillo, and Elisabeth Sadoulet
2. Impartible Inheritance Versus Equal Division: A Comparative Perspective Centered on Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa,Jean-Philippe Platteau and Jean-Marie Baland
3. Intrahousehold Access to Land and Source of Inefficiency: Theory and Concepts,Marcel Fafchamps
4. Land Rights and Natural Resource Management in the Transition to Individual Ownership: case Studies from Ghana and Indonesia,Keijiro Otsuka and Agnes R. Quisumbing
5. The Puzzle of Counterproductive Property Rights Reform: A Conceptual Analysis,Elinor Ostrom
6. Case Study. Property Rights: Access to Land and Forest Resources in Uganda,W. S. Gombya-Ssembajjwe, A. Y. Banana, and J. Bahati
7. Devolution of Control of Common-Pool Resources to Local Communities: Experiences in Forestry,J. E. Michael Arnold
8. Access to Land via Land Rental Markets,Elisabeth Sadoulet, Rinku Murgai, and Alain de Janvry
9. Case Study. Regulating the Sharecropping System: Operation Barga,Uday Shankar Saha and Mandira Saha
10. Land market Liberalization and the Agrarian Question in Latin America,Michael R. Carter and Ram?n Salgado
11. The Changing Role of the Statlƒ#