Does Sharecropping Affect Productivity and Long-Term Investment? : Evidence from West Bengal's Tenancy Reforms / Klaus Deininger
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2012Description: Online-Ressource (33 p)Additional physical formats: Deininger, Klaus: Does Sharecropping Affect Productivity and Long-Term Investment? DOI: DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-6293Online resources: Summary: Although transfer of agricultural land ownership through land reform had positive impacts on productivity, investment, and political empowerment in many cases, institutional arrangements in West Bengal - which made tenancy heritable and imposed a prohibition on subleasing - imply that early land reform benefits may not be sustained and gains from this policy remain well below potential. Data from a listing of 96,000 households in 200 villages, complemented by a detailed survey of 1,800 owner-cum tenants, point toward binding policy constraints and large contemporaneous inefficiency of share tenancy that is exacerbated by strong disincentives to investment. A conservative estimate puts the efficiency losses from such arrangements in any period at 25 percentPPN: PPN: 834976730Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-WBA | ZDB-110-WBLNo physical items for this record
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