Impacts of Land Certification on Tenure Security, Investment, and Land Markets : Evidence from Ethiopia

Although early attempts at land titling in Africa were often unsuccessful, the need to secure rights in view of increased demand for land, options for registration of a continuum of individual or communal rights under new laws, and the scope for reducing costs by combining information technology with participatory methods have led to renewed interest. This paper uses a difference-in-difference approach to assess economic impacts of a low-cost registration program in Ethiopia that, over 5 years, covered some 20 million parcels. Despite policy constraints, the program increased tenure security, land-related investment, and rental market participation and yielded benefits significantly above the cost of implementation.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Deininger, Klaus, Ali, Daniel Ayalew, Alemu, Tekie
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2008-10
Subjects:	ACCESS TO INFORMATION, ACCESS TO LAND, AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AGRICULTURE, ALLOCATIVE EFFICIENCY, CAPITAL FORMATION, COMMUNITIES, COMPENSATION, CONSTRUCTION, CULTIVATED LAND, CULTIVATION, DROUGHT, ECONOMETRICS, ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC EFFECTS, ECONOMIC GROWTH, ECONOMIC IMPACT, ECONOMIC IMPACTS, ECONOMIC OUTCOMES, EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS, EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE, EQUILIBRIUM, EROSION, FOOD POLICY RESEARCH, FUEL, GDP, HETEROGENEITY, HOUSING, IRRIGATED LAND, IRRIGATION, LABOR MARKETS, LAND ADMINISTRATION, LAND ASSETS, LAND DEGRADATION, LAND MARKET, LAND MARKETS, LAND OWNERS, LAND OWNERSHIP, LAND QUALITY, LAND RECORDS, LAND REDISTRIBUTION, LAND REGISTRATION, LAND RENTAL, LAND RIGHTS, LAND SALES, LAND TENURE, LAND TITLE, LAND TITLING, LAND USE, LAND VALUES, LANDLORD, LANDS, MARKET LIBERALIZATION, POLICY ENVIRONMENT, POLITICAL ECONOMY, PROGRAMS, PROPERTY RIGHTS, REPAIR, ROCKS, RURAL AREAS, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, RURAL WOMEN, SHARECROPPING, SLUMS, SOIL, SOIL CONSERVATION, SOIL QUALITY, SQUATTERS, TRANSACTION COSTS, URBAN AREAS, URBAN DEVELOPMENT, VILLAGES,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/10/9982807/impacts-land-certification-tenure-security-investment-land-markets-evidence-ethiopia-impacts-land-certification-tenure-security-investment-land-markets-evidence-ethiopia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6897
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