Going digital: Credit effects of land registry computerization in India

Deininger, Klaus; Goyal, Aparajita

doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2012.02.007

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“…Land certification in Ethiopia had positive impacts on investment (Holden et al, 2009) and land market participation (Deininger et al, 2011a). In India, improving producers’ access to information by computerizing land records helped to increase the number of registered transactions and credit access in urban but not rural areas (Deininger and Goyal, 2012). Under Mexico’s 1993–2006 land certification program, households obtaining certificates were 28% more likely to have a migrant member but there was no effect on cultivated area due to markets helping to consolidate farm units (de Janvry et al, 2015).…”

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Smallholders’ land access in Sub-Saharan Africa: A new landscape?

2017

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While scholars long recognized the importance of land markets as a key driver of rural non-farm development and transformation in rural areas, evidence on the extent of their operation and the nature of participants remains limited. We use household data from 6 countries to show that there is great potential for such markets to increase productivity and equalize factor ratios. While rental markets transfer land to land-poor and labor-rich producers, their operation and thus impact may be constrained by policy restrictions. Their functioning may also be constrained by ill-defined or insecure rights that may arise from failure to fully compensate existing rights in cases of expropriation, a failure to implement more broadly land policies or to do so in a gender sensitive manner. Methodological and substantive conclusions are derived.

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Smallholders’ land access in Sub-Saharan Africa: A new landscape?

2017

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“…Making it easy to identify land owners and transfer land can significantly reduce the transaction cost associated with credit access if a number of other conditions are satisfied (Deininger & Goyal, 2012). In the medium term, a key policy issue will thus be the extent to which Rwanda's effort to formalise land rights, which thus far demarcated all of the 10.5 million land parcels in the country, 19 will not only enhance investment incentives but also credit supply through a collateral effect (Feder & Nishio, 1998).…”

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Credit Constraints and Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from rural Rwanda

Ali

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Duponchel³

2014

The Journal of Development Studies

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While potentially negative impacts of credit constraints on economic development have long been discussed conceptually, empirical evidence for Africa remains limited. We use a direct elicitation approach on a national sample of Rwandan rural households to empirically assess the extent and nature of credit rationing in the semi-formal sector and its impact, using an endogenous switching model. Elimination of all constraints could increase output by some 17 per cent. Implications for policy and research are spelled out.

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“…Therefore, I argue that their finding does not constitute the effect of the reform per se but rather could be driven by unobserved characteristics of fathers who live longer. For example, although historically land markets in India have been thin, there has been increased activity in the recent past, especially in the south (Deininger and Goyal, 2012;Deininger et al, 2007). Hence the positive coefficient reported by Goyal et al (2013), could merely be proxying for the fact that fathers who lived longer were more likely to acquire land in the rapidly changing economic climate of the country, and leave a share to their daughters.…”

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Empowering women? Inheritance rights, female education and dowry payments in India

Roy

2015

Journal of Development Economics

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This paper examines the impact of gender-progressive reforms to the inheritance law in India on women's outcomes. Despite stipulating that daughters would have equal shares as sons in ancestral property, I find that the reform failed to increase the actual likelihood of women inheriting property. Instead, parents appear to be "gifting" their share of land to their sons in order to circumvent the law. However, parents also appear to be compensating their daughters for such disinheritance by giving them alternative transfers in the form of either higher dowries or more education following the reform.

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Going digital: Credit effects of land registry computerization in India

Cited by 51 publications

References 29 publications

Smallholders’ land access in Sub-Saharan Africa: A new landscape?

Smallholders’ land access in Sub-Saharan Africa: A new landscape?

Credit Constraints and Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from rural Rwanda

Empowering women? Inheritance rights, female education and dowry payments in India

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