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Market power and voluntary land redistribution

Reports & Research
May, 2018
Brazil, Colombia, United States of America, South Africa, Southern Africa
land reform
Inequality in land ownership remains a major issue in many developing countries, such as Brazil, Colombia, and South Africa. Donors advocate a new model of "willing-buyer/willing-seller\", market-led land redistribution, but actual redistribution has fallen short of expectations. Little effort has been made so far to formalize the obstacles to market-led land redistribution.
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The Political Economy of Urban Land Reform in Hawaii

Reports & Research
December, 2016
United States of America
Urban Tenure
land
land reform
urban land
In the mid-1960s 26 percent of the single-family homes in Honolulu were on leased land. Dissatisfaction with leasehold led to reform legislation in 1967, allowing lessees to buy leased land. By 1991 only 3.6 percent of the homes were on leased land. We examine why landowners elected to lease rather than sell land and attribute the rise of leasehold to legal constraints on land sales by large estates and the federal tax code. Ideological forces initiated land reform in 1967, but rent-seeking forces captured the process in the mid-1970s.
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Making negotiated land reform work : initial experience from Brazil, Colombia, and South Africa

Reports & Research
July, 2016
Brazil, Colombia, United States of America, South Africa, Southern Africa
land
land reform
negotiated land reform
The author describes a new type of negotiated land reform that relies on voluntary land transfers negotiated between buyers and sellers, with the government's role restricted to establishing the necessary framework for negotiation and making a land purchase grant available to eligible beneficiaries. This approach has emerged-following the end of the Cold War and broad macroeconomic adjustment--as many countries face a second generation of reforms to address deep-rooted structural problems and provide a basis for sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction.
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Land Reform in Turkmenistan

Reports & Research
May, 2016
Norway, Turkmenistan, United States of America
land
land reform
Land Economics/Use,
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Land Reform and Development of Agricultural Land Markets in Russia

Reports & Research
September, 2016
Norway, Russia, United States of America
Land & Investments
development
land
land markets
land reform
Russia has experienced dramatic changes in land ownership and tenure since 1991: agricultural land has been largely privatized, individual landowners now have legal rights to most agricultural land in the country, and prohibitions on buying and selling of land have been recently removed. The necessary pre-conditions for the development of agricultural land markets have been met and we are beginning to witness transactions that involve individual landowners, and not only the state.
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Land Reform in Italy

Reports & Research
January, 1955
Italy, Norway, United States of America
land
land reform
Agricultural and Food Policy, Land Economics/Use,
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Land Reform and Sustainable Development

Reports & Research
November, 2016
Norway, United States of America
development
land
land reform
sustainable development
Land reform, equitable distribution, economic development, environmental quality, land reform strategies, Brazil, Landless Workers’ Movement, East Asia, rural poverty, land productivity, sustainable agriculture, comparative advantage, small farms. Land reform, equitable distribution, economic development, environmental quality, land reform strategies, Brazil, Landless Workers’ Movement, East Asia, rural poverty, land productivity, sustainable agriculture, comparative advantage, small farms.
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Land Reform and Landholdings in Brazil

Reports & Research
November, 2015
Brazil, Norway, United States of America
land
land reform
land reform, land distribution, wealth distribution
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Farmland Ownership Policy: Technical Paper

Reports & Research
August, 2015
United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agricultural land management
land reform
land use
In this paper I develop a theoretical model to analyze policy that restricts who can own land. I briefly review research related to such policy in Saskatchewan, Canada, and identify a standard supply-demand model that I extend in several ways. First, I replicate results for how policy affects prices and develop new results for how policy affects social welfare using comparative statics. Second, I extend the model to a dynamic setting where demand curves change over time and show that policy can affect price changes in variety of ways, which I refer to as comparative dynamics.
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Farmland Values and Credit Conditions

Reports & Research
November, 2013
United States of America
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agricultural land management
agriculture
land reform
land use
According to the most recent AgLetter, Seventh District farmland values in the third quarter of 2013 were 14 percent higher than a year ago. However, values for “good” agricultural land in the third quarter of 2013 were only 1 percent higher than in the second quarter.