Access to land and rural poverty in developing countries: theory and evidence from Guatemala
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Keywords
Access to land; rural poverty; off-farm income; Guatemala;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- Q15 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2009-02-22 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-DEV-2009-02-22 (Development)
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