Property rights in a very poor country: tenure insecurity and investment in Ethiopia

This paper provides evidence from one of the poorest countries of the world that the institutions of property rights matter for efficiency, investment and growth. With all land state-owned, the threat of land redistribution never appears far off the agenda. Land rental and leasing have been made leg...

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Main Authors: Dercon, S, Ayalew, D, Gautam, M
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2005