Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/53013 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Discussion Paper No. 2002/26
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
Customary rules governing access to land and other natural resources in village societies have characteristics that allow them to fulfil social security functions and achieve equity objectives. This is true of both common-property resources and land parcels held under individualized tenure. However, when land pressure increases under the combined influences of population growth and market integration, a shift occurs from extensive to intensive resource use patterns. As a result, the efficiency costs of erstwhile equity- and insurance-oriented arrangements rise, thus forcing them to evolve significantly. In particular, land tenure arrangements undergo a major transformation towards more individualized forms with the consequence that property rights in land are increasingly defined without regard for equity and insurance concerns.
Subjects: 
land tenure
informal insurance
equity
common property
JEL: 
O13
O17
Q15
ISBN: 
9291901717
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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