GENDER, ETHNICITY, AND LANDED PROPERTY IN ALBANIA

Susana Lastarria-Cornhiel and Rachel Wheeler

No 12791, Working Papers from University of Wisconsin-Madison, Land Tenure Center

Abstract: Methods used to privatize state property attest to Albania's commitment to a democratic and egalitarian society: farmland was distributed to the households working on the ex-collectives and state farms, and housing was sold at a nominal price to the families occupying it. There are social issues, however, that influence not only the potential role of property ownership in the development of a democratic society, but also the true workability of some persons' political and economic opportunities. This paper examines two of these social issues: gender and ethnicity. Assuming that property ownership is a necessary condition for establishing a democratic market economy, the potential denial to exercise those rights for a significant proportion of the population on the basis of gender or ethnicity could undermine Albania's attempts to establish a democratic society and dynamic market economy based on equal opportunity.

Keywords: Labor and Human Capital; Land Economics/Use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 53
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.12791

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