Land quality, land rights, and indigenous poverty

Leonard, Bryan; Parker, Dominic P.; Anderson, Terry L.

doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2019.102435

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“…and human activities (fertilization, irrigation, and crop rotation etc.) directly, indirectly, synergistically or antagonistically affected the quality of grain production space (Leonard et al, 2020;Kurmangozhinov et al, 2020;Jin et al, 2021). Hence, it was di cult to establish a uni ed standard to evaluate the quality of grain production space (Fu and Bai, 2015).…”

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Grain Production Space Reconstruction and Its Influencing Factors in the Loess Plateau

Qin¹,

Liu²,

Lu³

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Land systems can be classified spatially as grain production space, ecological service space and urban-rural development space. Grain production space reconstruction concentrates the principal contradictions in land system changes. Exploring the process, pathways and influencing factors of grain production space reconstruction can coordinate the trade-off/synergy among grain production, ecological protection and economic development. Therefore, the reconstruction characteristics of grain production space in the Loess Plateau were systematically analyzed in terms of quantity, quality, and spatial pattern in this study. Results showed that although the quantity of grain production space in the Loess Plateau declined, the quality improved between 1980 and 2018. The grain production space in the Loess Plateau was increasingly fragmented and scattered, with more regular shapes in 2018 than 1980. Moreover, the center of gravity of grain production space moved 8.32 kilometers to the northwest; it moved more significantly to the northwest when considering the quality of grain production space. The reconstruction of grain production space in quantity, quality and spatial pattern was mainly realized through the pathways of Grain for Green, Urban Expansion, Deforestation and Reclamation as well as Land Consolidation; and the pathways of Grain for Green after 2000 was the principal pathway for grain production space reconstruction. The four reconstruction pathways of grain production space in the Loess Plateau were the result of a combination of natural environment and socio-economic factors, but driving factors had different strengths and directions for each reconstruction pathway. This study offered a comprehensive understanding of grain production space reconstruction, and provided a new research perspective for coordinating grain production, ecological protection and high-quality economic development.

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“…Perhaps the only paper in economic history that explicitly addresses the evolution of property ownership and sovereignty between the United States and Indigenous nations isAnderson and Mc Chesney (1994).7 On the Dawes Act, seeAkee (2020),Carlson (1978Carlson ( , 1981Carlson ( , 1983,Miller (2015),Dippel and Fry (2019),Dippel et al (2020), andLeonard et al (2020).8 Exceptions includeWishart (1995),Gregg (2009), andGregg and Wishart (2012) on the Cherokee economy and their removal.9 Our paper parallels new work on the development of the US economy, slavery, and how Black Americans faced extractive institutions(Derenoncourt, 2017) and who too were dispossessed(Logan and Temin, 2020).…”

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“…On the Dawes Act, seeAkee (2020),Carlson (1978Carlson ( , 1981Carlson ( , 1983,Miller (2015),Dippel and Frye (2021),Dippel, Frye, and Leonard (2020), andLeonard, Parker, and Anderson (2020). Exceptions includeWishart (1995),Gregg (2009), andGregg and Wishart (2012) on the Cherokee economy and their removal.…”

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Indigenous Nations and the Development of the U.S. Economy: Land, Resources, and Dispossession

Carlos

Feir²,

Redish³

2022

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Abundant land and strong property rights are conventionally viewed as key factors underpinning U.S. economic development success. This view relies on the “Pristine Myth” of an empty undeveloped land, but the abundant land of North America was already made productive and was the recognized territory of sovereign Indigenous Nations. We demonstrate that the development of strong property rights for European/American settlers was mirrored by the attenuation and increasing disregard of Indigenous property rights. We argue that the dearth of discussion of the dispossession of Indigenous nations results in a misunderstanding of some of the core themes of U.S. economic history.

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“…This approach examines the correlation between two variables of interest, controlling for as many other characteristics (variables) as possible. Recent examples are Michaelsen and Salardi (2020); Leonard et al (2020). To make causal claims this approach assumes that all relevant covariates can be accurately measured and accounted for.…”

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Development Aid, FDI and environmental protection in Africa

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ODA is Official Development aid (% of GNI), FDI is Foreign Direct Investment (% of GDP). % protected is the total landmass that is in some form protected. Sources: World Bank (2020); Development Indicators Unit (2016) with interpersonal trust. Trusting behavior is associated with improved market performance. Individuals might use their relations within the social network as collateral to complete trust-based interactions. Understanding the social network can then be used to predict trusting behavior. There is very little evidence on the network determinants of trust, especially in a developing country context. This thesis examines the distributional effects of network-based technology diffusion, and the relation between social networks and trust.A more recent approach to development is through Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). There is an interest in donor countries in spurring development through private companies. For example, the Dutch government's goal for development is DesignTo answer these research questions this thesis employs a diverse set of methods, most of which have the explicit aim of establishing causality (under a set of weaker 1.4 Design 9 and stronger assumptions). Each of these methods is discussed in turn. See Abadie and Cattaneo ( 2018) for a more substantial review of these methods. 1.4.1 Randomized Control Trials Randomized Control Trials (RCTs) are considered the 'gold standard' for causal inference. It has been used for decades in drug testing and has seen spectacular growth within development economics (Banerjee and Duflo, 2009; Baranov et al., 2020; Romero et al., 2020). 2019's Nobel prize was awarded to three development economists that popularized RCTs. RCTs work by randomly assigning some kind of treatment to a group (the treatment group), while the other group does not receive the treatment (control group). As the groups are randomly decided they are by definition similar in levels and trends of observable and unobservable char-acteristics. This allows any difference between the two groups after administering the treatment to be attributed to the treatment. This is subject to one main assumption: the Stable Unit Treatment Variation Assumption (SUTVA). This means, simply said, that the only difference between the two groups must be the treatment assignment. The most common SUTVA violation is through spillovers:the control group is affected by the treatment in the treatment group, for example through changes in the local markets. However, SUTVA can also be violated by differential attrition between the two groups, or through characteristics affecting take-up (if relevant). By carefully monitoring the treatment implementation a researcher can make an argument that SUTVA is not violated.This thesis uses this method in Chapter 2 to asses the causal impact of two different methods of technology diffusion. The researchers had full control over the treatment, which allowed us to choose the strongest causal method. This control also allowed careful tracking of implementation to discover vi...

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Land quality, land rights, and indigenous poverty

Cited by 53 publications

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Grain Production Space Reconstruction and Its Influencing Factors in the Loess Plateau

Grain Production Space Reconstruction and Its Influencing Factors in the Loess Plateau

Indigenous Nations and the Development of the U.S. Economy: Land, Resources, and Dispossession

Development Aid, FDI and environmental protection in Africa

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