Land Reforms and Economic Development

Hans Gersbach and Lars-Hinrich Siemers ()

No 5184, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: We demonstrate that there is a nexus between land transfers and human capital formation. A sequence of land redistributions enables the beneficiaries to educate their children and thus to escape from poverty and to overcome child labour. We find that open access to land markets should be prohibited for beneficiaries for some time. Moreover, a temporary state of inequality among the poor is unavoidable. Finally, a successful land reform allows for the transition of a society from an agriculture-based state of poverty to a human capital-based developed economy.

Keywords: Migration; Poverty; Land reform; Transition; land market access (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I28 I38 O11 O15 Q15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-afr, nep-agr and nep-dev
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