Securing Land Rights under Rapid Population Growth: The Feasibility of Institutional Land Rights Protection in Africa

R. Haagsma, P. Mouche
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The paper examines the claim that a virtuous cycle of more secure land rights, more land-saving investments, and denser populations requires the development of institutions that regulate competition over land. We construct a contest model that links the tenure-security-investment relationship to the efforts of land users to enhance land rights themselves and the role of institutional protection. We study the effect of population growth on a close-to-subsistence economy, including the possibility that it weakens institutional protection. We derive sufficient conditions for a positive effect on land investment, but also show that population growth can push the economy into a low-productivity trap.
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人口快速增长下的土地权保障:非洲土地权制度保护的可行性
本文考察了这样一种说法,即更有保障的土地权利、更多节约土地的投资和更密集的人口之间的良性循环,需要发展监管土地竞争的制度。我们构建了一个竞赛模型,将使用权-保障-投资关系与土地使用者自身增强土地权利的努力和制度保护的作用联系起来。我们研究了人口增长对接近生存线的经济的影响,包括它削弱制度保护的可能性。我们得出了对土地投资产生积极影响的充分条件,但也表明人口增长会将经济推入低生产率陷阱。
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