Land Acquisition for Industrialization and Compensation of Displaced Farmers

Maitreesh Ghatak and Dilip Mookherjee

No wp-2011-035, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper addresses the question of how farmers displaced by acquisition of agricultural land for the purpose of industrialization ought to be compensated. Prior to acquisition, the farmers are leasing in land from a landlord, either a private owner or a local government. There are three sets of relevant incentive effects in the model: the decision of the landlord to sell the land ex post to an industrial developer, and ex ante incentives of tenants and landlord to make specific investments in agricultural quality of the land.

Keywords: Compensation management; Industrialization; Land tenure; Land use; Right of property (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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