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Land Tenure Reform in East Africa: Good, Bad or Unimportant?1

Land Tenure Reform in East Africa: Good, Bad or Unimportant?1 AbstractTheoretical arguments lead to the conclusion that there should be more land-secured credit, more investment, a more active land market, and more inequality of land in a community under freehold tenure compared with one in which the state owns and allocates the land. Detailed evidence from two communities in Kenya and Tanzania suggests that none of these conclusions holds because the stated policy differences do not in fact cause the land markets to perform differentily in the two countries. These results are in broad agreement with other studies conducted in Africal in recent years that indicate that indigenous land tenure arrangements provide considerable security for investment and continue to have strong impacts on land markets even when they are no longer in effect according to the law. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of African Economies Oxford University Press

Land Tenure Reform in East Africa: Good, Bad or Unimportant?1

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
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© Centre for the Study of African Economies
ISSN
0963-8024
eISSN
1464-3723
DOI
10.1093/oxfordjournals.jae.a036794
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Abstract

AbstractTheoretical arguments lead to the conclusion that there should be more land-secured credit, more investment, a more active land market, and more inequality of land in a community under freehold tenure compared with one in which the state owns and allocates the land. Detailed evidence from two communities in Kenya and Tanzania suggests that none of these conclusions holds because the stated policy differences do not in fact cause the land markets to perform differentily in the two countries. These results are in broad agreement with other studies conducted in Africal in recent years that indicate that indigenous land tenure arrangements provide considerable security for investment and continue to have strong impacts on land markets even when they are no longer in effect according to the law.

Journal

Journal of African EconomiesOxford University Press

Published: Apr 1, 1994

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