Property Rights, Productivity, and Common Property Resources: Insights from Rural Cambodia
Property Rights, Productivity, and Common Property Resources: Insights from Rural Cambodia
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DOI：
10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.04.008
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发表时间：
2008-11-01
影响因子：
6.9
通讯作者：
Markussen, Thomas
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作者：
Markussen, Thomas
本文利用2003/04年度柬埔寨家庭社会经济调查数据，对土地产权的影响进行了研究。人们发现，在柬埔寨农村，持有所有权文件的地块比其他地块具有更高的生产力和土地价值，而产权对获得信贷的影响较小。本文还探讨了私有产权的引入是否会导致公共财产资源的可用性下降。数据只能为这一假设提供微弱的支持。总的观点是，加强土地产权的政策可以对农村经济产生重要的积极影响，即使在国家能力低下的环境中也是如此。(C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd版权所有。
This paper uses data from the 2003/04 Cambodia Household Socioeconomic Survey to investigate the effects of property rights to land. Plots held with a paper documenting ownership in rural Cambodia are found to have higher productivity and land values than other plots, while property rights have weak effects on access to credit. The paper also investigates whether the introduction of private property rights leads to decreased availability of common property resources. The data offers only weak support for this hypothesis. The general insight is that policies to strengthen land property rights can have important, positive effects on the rural economy, even in an environment of low state capacity. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.