Land Titling and Rural Transition in Vietnam

We examine the impact of the 1993 Land Law of Vietnam, which gave households the power to exchange, transfer, lease, inherit, and mortgage their land-use rights. We use household surveys before and after the law was passed, together with the considerable variation across provinces in the speed of im...

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Main Authors:	Do, Quy-Toan, Iyer, Lakshmi
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development O120 Formal and Informal Sectors Shadow Economy Institutional Arrangements O170 Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: Consumer Economics Health Education and Training: Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty P360 Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Legal Institutions Illegal Behavior P370 Land Ownership and Tenure Land Reform Land Use Irrigation Agriculture and Environment Q150
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spelling	okr-10986-56662021-04-23T14:02:23Z Land Titling and Rural Transition in Vietnam Do, Quy-Toan Iyer, Lakshmi Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development O120 Formal and Informal Sectors Shadow Economy Institutional Arrangements O170 Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: Consumer Economics Health Education and Training: Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty P360 Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Legal Institutions Illegal Behavior P370 Land Ownership and Tenure Land Reform Land Use Irrigation Agriculture and Environment Q150 We examine the impact of the 1993 Land Law of Vietnam, which gave households the power to exchange, transfer, lease, inherit, and mortgage their land-use rights. We use household surveys before and after the law was passed, together with the considerable variation across provinces in the speed of implementation of the reform, to identify the impact of the law. We find that the additional land rights led to statistically significant increases in the share of total area devoted to long-term crops and in labor devoted to nonfarm activities. However, these changes are not large in magnitude and appear to be driven mainly by the increased security of tenure provided by the law rather than by increased access to credit markets or greater land market participation. 2012-03-30T07:33:56Z 2012-03-30T07:33:56Z 2008 Journal Article Economic Development and Cultural Change 00130079 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5666 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article Vietnam
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description	We examine the impact of the 1993 Land Law of Vietnam, which gave households the power to exchange, transfer, lease, inherit, and mortgage their land-use rights. We use household surveys before and after the law was passed, together with the considerable variation across provinces in the speed of implementation of the reform, to identify the impact of the law. We find that the additional land rights led to statistically significant increases in the share of total area devoted to long-term crops and in labor devoted to nonfarm activities. However, these changes are not large in magnitude and appear to be driven mainly by the increased security of tenure provided by the law rather than by increased access to credit markets or greater land market participation.
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title	Land Titling and Rural Transition in Vietnam
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Land Titling and Rural Transition in Vietnam

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