Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/54006 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2011/74
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
Although recent developments greatly increased interest in African land tenure, few models to address these issues at the required scale have been identified or evaluated. Rwanda's nation-wide land tenure regularization programme is of great interest. A discontinuity design with spatial fixed effects that is used to evaluate the pilot for this programme points to three main effects; namely, (i) improved land access for legally married women and better recordation of inheritance rights; (ii) significant and large investment impacts that are particularly pronounced for women; and (iii) a reduction in land market activity rather than distress sales. Implications for programme design and policy are discussed.
Subjects: 
gender
agricultural investment
land administration
Rwanda
JEL: 
J16
O13
Q12
Q15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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