Tenure security and land-related investment - evidence from Ethiopia

Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin, Berhanu Adenew, Samuel Gebre-Selassie and Berhanu Nega

No 2991, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: The authors use a large data set from Ethiopia that differentiates tenure security and transferability to explore determinants of different types of land-related investment and its possible impact on productivity. While they find some support for endogeneity of investment in trees, this is not the case for terraces. Transfer rights are unambiguously investment-enhancing. The large productivity effect of terracing implies that, even where households undertake investments to increase their tenure security, this may not be socially efficient. In Ethiopia, government action to increase tenure security and transferability of land rights can significantly enhance rural investment and productivity.

Keywords: Land and Real Estate Development; Environmental Economics&Policies; Municipal Housing and Land; Labor Policies; Payment Systems&Infrastructure; Environmental Economics&Policies; Municipal Housing and Land; Banks&Banking Reform; Land and Real Estate Development; Real Estate Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-03-31
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