Shaping inequality? Property rights, landed elites and public lands in Colombia
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Keywords
Land reform; property rights; public land allocations; landed elites; collective action;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- P48 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Other Economic Systems - - - Legal Institutions; Property Rights; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Regional Studies
- N56 - Economic History - - Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment and Extractive Industries - - - Latin America; Caribbean
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2022-11-28 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-CDM-2022-11-28 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-DEV-2022-11-28 (Development)
- NEP-HIS-2022-11-28 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
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