Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/18118 
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Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 358
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
The relationship between land investment and tenure security is usually tested in land scarce but peaceful areas. This article examines instead the effects of land abundance and war for investment and tenure security. The paper demonstrates that war enhances land abundance. This implies that farm size for the analysis of land investment and tenure security. The paper formally tests for land abundance and estimates a system of equations using farm survey data from post-war Mozambique. Farm size is found to be a key determinant of both investment and tenure security. This raises important policy issues for post-war reconstruction.
Subjects: 
land
property rights
tenure security
investment
war
conflict
reconstruction
policy
Mozambique
Africa
JEL: 
O13
Q12
Q15
O12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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