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The Effects of Land Title Registration on Tenure Security, Investment and the Allocation of Productive Resources : Evidence from Ghana (English)

Smallholder farmers' investment decisions and the efficiency of resource allocation depend on the security of land tenure. This paper develops a simple model that captures essential institutional features of rural land markets in Ghana, including the dependence of future rights over land on current cultivation and land rental decisions. The model predictions guide the evaluation of a pilot land titling intervention that took place in an urbanizing...
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Agyei-Holmes,Andrew; Buehren,Niklas; Goldstein,Markus P.; Osei,Robert Darko; Osei-Akoto,Isaac; Udry,Christopher Robert.

The Effects of Land Title Registration on Tenure Security, Investment and the Allocation of Productive Resources : Evidence from Ghana (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 9376 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/789321598973160923

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