Is Land Titling in Sub-Saharan Africa Cost-Effective? Evidence from Madagascar
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23324810 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hanan G Jacoby (0000-0002-7061-4425, World Bank), Bart Minten (0000-0002-2183-1845, International Food Policy Research Institute) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 461-485 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The World Bank Economic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0258-6770 • E-ISSN: 1564-698X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/wber/lhm011 |
| OpenAlex | W2119142250 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 75 |
| References cited | 14 |
Formalizing land rights has been promoted as a way to encourage agricultural investment and stimulate land markets, yet little is known about the benefits of such policies in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the preconditions for success are less favorable. The analysis uses a large sample of plots from an intensively titled rice-growing area of Madagascar and compares land-specific investments, land productivity, and land values for titled and untitled plots cultivated by the same household. Having a title has no significant effect on plot-specific investment and correspondingly little effect on land productivity and land values. These results are broadly consistent with a simulation of a theoretical model of investment under expropriation risk calibrated to the same data. A cost–benefit analysis suggests that the current system of formal titling should not be extended in rural Madagascar and that any new system of land registration would have to be quite inexpensive to be worthwhile.
Agricultural economics · Agricultural land · Agricultural productivity · Agriculture · Business · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental planning · Expropriation · Geography · Investment (military) · Land registration · Land rights · Land tenure · Land titling · Land use · Market economy · Natural resource economics · Political science · Productivity · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Ecology · Land Rights and Reforms · Urban and Rural Development Challenges
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