Land reforms, poverty reduction, and economic growth: evidence from India

Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin and Hari Nagarajan

No 4448, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: Recognition of the importance of institutions that provide security of property rights and relatively equal access to economic resources to a broad cross-section of society has renewed interest in the potential of asset redistribution, including land reforms. Empirical analysis of the impact of such policies is, however, scant and often contradictory. This paper uses panel household data from India, together with state-level variation in the implementation of land reform, to address some of the deficiencies of earlier studies. The results suggest that land reform had a significant and positive impact on income growth and accumulation of human and physical capital. The paper draws policy implications, especially from the fact that the observed impact of land reform seems to have declined over time.

Keywords: Rural Poverty Reduction; Political Economy; Rural Development Knowledge&Information Systems; Municipal Housing and Land; Rural Land Policies for Poverty Reduction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-12-01
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