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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
Is land titling in Sub-Saharan Africa cost-effective? Evidence from Madagascar
World Bank Economic Review, Volume 21, No. 3, Year 2007
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Formalizing land rights has been promoted as a way to encourage agricultural investment and stimulate land markets, yet little is known about the benefits of such policies in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the preconditions for success are less favorable. The analysis uses a large sample of plots from an intensively titled rice-growing area of Madagascar and compares land-specific investments, land productivity, and land values for titled and untitled plots cultivated by the same household. Having a title has no significant effect on plot-specific investment and correspondingly little effect on land productivity and land values. These results are broadly consistent with a simulation of a theoretical model of investment under expropriation risk calibrated to the same data. A cost-benefit analysis suggests that the current system of formal titling should not be extended in rural Madagascar and that any new system of land registration would have to be quite inexpensive to be worthwhile. © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development the world bank. All rights reserved.
Authors & Co-Authors
Minten, Bart
Unknown Affiliation
Statistics
Citations: 275
Authors: 1
Affiliations: 1
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1093/wber/lhm011
ISSN:
1564698X
Study Locations
Madagascar