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Property without Rights

Origins and Consequences of the Property Rights Gap

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

AvMichael Albertus

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Major land reform programs have reallocated property in more than one-third of the world's countries in the last century and impacted over one billion people. But only rarely have these programs granted beneficiaries complete property rights. Why is this the case, and what are the consequences? This book draws on wide-ranging original data and charts new conceptual terrain to reveal the political origins of the property rights gap. It shows that land reform programs are most often implemented by authoritarian governments who deliberately withhold property rights from beneficiaries. In so doing, governments generate coercive leverage over rural populations and exert social control. This is politically advantageous to ruling governments but it has negative development consequences: it slows economic growth, productivity, and urbanization and it exacerbates inequality. The book also examines the conditions under which subsequent governments close property rights gaps, usually as a result of democratization or foreign pressure.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-01-07
Mått156 x 234 x 28 mm
Vikt710 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Antal sidor416
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108835237

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1. Introduction; 2. Conceptualizing and Measuring the Property Rights Gap; 3. The Political Origins of the Property Rights Gap; 4. Evidence on the Rise and Fall of Property Rights Gaps in Latin America; 5. Consequences of the Property Rights Gap; 6. Opening and Closing a Property Rights Gap in Peru; 7. The Long-Term Consequences of Peru's Property Rights Gap; 8. Property Rights Gaps Around the World; 9. Conclusion.

'Low productivity in agriculture condemns many countries and regions to poverty. This erudite book combines history and detailed data analysis to show that low productivity is often caused by a property rights gap, created by regimes trying to cultivate large masses of peasants dependent on them. The book explains where these missing property rights in land emerge, what they imply for inequality and poverty, and how they can be overcome. This is first-rate social science that should inform modern debates on development and policy.' Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology