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Land rights and economic development - evidence from Viet Nam, Volume 1

Author:	Quy-Toan Do; Lakshmi Iyer;	Collection Title:	Policy, Research working paper series ; no. WPS 3120
Country:	Vietnam;	Date Stored:	2003/09/23
Document Date:	2003/08/31	Document Type:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English	Region:	East Asia and Pacific
Report Number:	WPS3120	SubTopics:	Environmental Economics & Policies; Municipal Housing and Land; Real Estate Development; Forestry; Agricultural Knowledge and Information Systems; Land and Real Estate Development; Rural Land Policies for Poverty Reduction
Volume No:	1	Related Dataset:	Viet Nam: Provincial Land Use Certificate Issuance data, 1994-2000;

Summary: The authors examine the impact of land reform in Vietnam which gives households the power to exchange, transfer, lease, inherit, and mortgage their land-use rights. The authors expect this change to increase the incentives as well as the ability to undertake long-term investments on the part of households. Their difference-in-differences estimation strategy takes advantage of the variation across provinces in the issuance of land-use certificates needed to enforce these rights. The results indicate that the additional land rights led to significant increases in the share of total area devoted to multi-year crops, as well as some increase in irrigation investment. These effects are stronger in areas that felt the impact of the land reform earlier.


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