Does Sharecropping Affect Productivity and Long-Term Investment? Evidence from West Bengal’s Tenancy Reforms

Does Sharecropping Affect Productivity and Long-Term Investment? Evidence from West Bengal’s Tenancy Reforms

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...

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Main Authors: Deininger, Klaus, Jin, Songqing, Yadav, Vandana
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:
ACCOUNTING
ADVERSE SELECTION
AGRARIAN REFORM
AGRICULTURAL LAND
AGRICULTURE
BARGAINING
BARGAINING POWER
BENEFICIARIES
BORROWING
CAPITAL STOCK
CLAIMANTS
CONTRACT ENFORCEMENT
CONTRACTUAL ARRANGEMENTS
CONTRACTUAL RELATIONSHIPS
CREDIT ACCESS
CREDIT CONSTRAINTS
CREDIT MARKET
CREDIT MARKETS
CREDIT RATIONING
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
DEVELOPMENT POLICY
ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
ECONOMIC GROWTH
ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
ECONOMICS
ECONOMIES OF SCOPE
ELASTICITY
EMPLOYMENT
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
EQUIPMENT
FAMILY LABOR
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
FIXED EFFECT MODEL
GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM
HOUSEHOLD FIXED EFFECT
HOUSEHOLD FIXED EFFECTS
HOUSEHOLDS
HOUSES
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
INCOME
INEFFICIENCY
INSTITUTIONAL CREDIT
INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
INSURANCE
INSURANCE MARKETS
INTERNATIONAL BANK
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
INVESTMENT DECISION
INVESTMENT DECISIONS
ISSUANCE
LAND OWNERSHIP
LAND POLICIES
LAND PRICES
LAND REFORM
LAND REFORMS
LAND TENURE
LAND USE
LAND VALUES
LANDLORDS
LEASE AGREEMENTS
LEASES
LEASING
LEGAL CONSTRAINTS
LEGAL RIGHTS
LIMITED LIABILITY
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
LONG-TERM INVESTMENT
LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS
MARGINAL BENEFITS
MARKET OPERATION
MARKET TRANSACTIONS
MORAL HAZARD
MOTIVATION
OPPORTUNITY COST
OUTPUT LOSS
PERFECT INFORMATION
POINTS
POLITICAL ECONOMY
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEVELOPMENT
POLITICAL POWER
PRODUCTION FUNCTION
PRODUCTIVITY
PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH
PRODUCTIVITY INCREASES
PROPERTY RIGHTS
PUBLIC FINANCE
RENTS
RISK AVERSE
SAVINGS
SIDE EFFECTS
TENANTS
TOTAL OUTPUT
TRANSACTION
TRANSACTION COSTS
TRANSFER OF PROPERTY RIGHTS
WEALTH
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/12/17066318/sharecropping-affect-productivity-long-term-investment-evidence-west-bengal s-tenancy-reforms
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12185

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/12/17066318/sharecropping-affect-productivity-long-term-investment-evidence-west-bengal s-tenancy-reforms
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12185

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