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Title: Land Reforms and Economic Development

Author(s): Hans Gersbach and Lars Siemers

Publication Date: August 2005

Keyword(s): land market access, land reforms, migration, poverty and transition

Programme Area(s): Institutions and Economic Performance

Abstract: We demonstrate that there is a nexus between land transfers and human capital formation. A sequence of land redistributions enables the beneficiaries to educate their children and thus to escape from poverty and to overcome child labour. We find that open access to land markets should be prohibited for beneficiaries for some time. Moreover, a temporary state of inequality among the poor is unavoidable. Finally, a successful land reform allows for the transition of a society from an agriculture-based state of poverty to a human capital-based developed economy.

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Gersbach, H and Siemers, L. 2005. 'Land Reforms and Economic Development'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=5184