Deininger, Klaus
[VerfasserIn]
;
Deininger, Klaus
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Jin, Songqing
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Yadav, Vandana
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
Does Sharecropping Affect Productivity and Long-Term Investment?
Erschienen:
Washington, D.C: The World Bank, 2012
2012
Umfang:
Online-Ressource (33 p)
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1596/1813-9450-6293
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Reproduktionsreihe:
World Bank eLibrary
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Beschreibung:
Although transfer of agricultural land ownership through land reform had positive impacts on productivity, investment, and political empowerment in many cases, institutional arrangements in West Bengal - which made tenancy heritable and imposed a prohibition on subleasing - imply that early land reform benefits may not be sustained and gains from this policy remain well below potential. Data from a listing of 96,000 households in 200 villages, complemented by a detailed survey of 1,800 owner-cum tenants, point toward binding policy constraints and large contemporaneous inefficiency of share tenancy that is exacerbated by strong disincentives to investment. A conservative estimate puts the efficiency losses from such arrangements in any period at 25 percent