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Systems of Land Tenure, Allocative Efficiency, and Economic Development

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  • P. C. Ip
  • C. W. Stahl

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This paper discusses comparative efficiency of resource allocation under alternative forms of land tenure—sharecropping, fixed rental, wage cultivation, and owner cultivation. It shows that when transaction costs, the role of entrepreneurship, and economic incentives are explicitly introduced and analyzed within the framework of intersectoral interactions and linkages, land reform measures redistributing land to the peasants, substituting owner-cultivators for share tenants, tend to improve agricultural production efficiency, resource allocation between farm and other sectors, and contribute to economic development of less developed countries, contrary to conclusions reached by writers of the "equal efficiency" school.

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  • P. C. Ip & C. W. Stahl, 1978. "Systems of Land Tenure, Allocative Efficiency, and Economic Development," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 60(1), pages 19-28.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:ajagec:v:60:y:1978:i:1:p:19-28.
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    1. Gavian, Sarah & Ehui, Simeon, 1999. "Measuring the production efficiency of alternative land tenure contracts in a mixed crop-livestock system in Ethiopia," Agricultural Economics, Blackwell, vol. 20(1), pages 37-49, January.
    2. Bernat, G. Andrew, Jr., 1987. "Share Leasing And Production Efficiency," Staff Reports 278000, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    3. Ayamga, Michael & Dzanku, Fred, 2013. "The Land Rights and Farm Investment Ghana: The Missing Link in the Operationalisation of Tenure Security," 2013 Fourth International Conference, September 22-25, 2013, Hammamet, Tunisia 161478, African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE).
    4. Stahl CW., 1984. "International labour migration and the ASEAN economies," ILO Working Papers 992318693402676, International Labour Organization.
    5. repec:ilo:ilowps:231869 is not listed on IDEAS
    6. M. A. Taslim, 1992. "A Survey of Theories of Cropshare Tenancy," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 68(3), pages 254-275, September.
    7. Patterson, Brian & Hanson, Steven D. & Robison, Lindon J., 1998. "Characteristics Of Farmland Leasing In The North Central United States," Staff Paper Series 11610, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics.

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