Tenure insecurity, gender, low-cost land certification and land rental market participation
Holden, Stein T. et al.
There is a renewed interest in whether land reforms can contribute to market development and poverty reduction in Africa. This paper assesses effects on the allocative efficiency of the land rental market of the low-cost approach to land registration and certification of restricted property rights that was implemented in Ethiopia from the late 1990s. Four rounds of balanced household panel data collected from 16 villages in northern Ethiopia are used. Land certification initially enhanced land rental market participation of (potential) tenant and landlord households and especially participation of female-headed landlord households.
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