Land Encroachment: India’s Disappearing Common Lands

Elizabeth Robinson ()

No 2004-28, CSAE Working Paper Series from Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford

Abstract: Opportunistic land encroachment, resulting from costly and incomplete enforcement of common land boundaries, is a problem in many less-developed countries. A multi-period model of such encroachment is presented in this paper. The model accounts explicitly for the cumulative effects of non-compliance of regulations designed to protect a finite, non-renewable resource - in this case common land - from private expropriation. Gradual evolution of property rights from common to private - the consequence of encroachment - is demonstrated to be an equilibrium. To prevent the complete loss of common land, full enforcement must be the rule rather than the exception.

Keywords: enforcement; encroachment; dynamic optimisation; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C61 K42 Q24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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