Property Rights in a Very Poor Country: Tenure Insecurity and Investment in Ethiopia

This article provides evidence from one of the poorest countries in 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...

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Main Authors: Ali, Daniel Ayalew, Dercon, Stefan, Gautam, Madhur
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5532