Book contents
- Property without Rights
- Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
- Property without Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Conceptualizing and Measuring the Property Rights Gap
- 3 The Political Origins of the Property Rights Gap
- 4 Evidence on the Rise and Fall of Property Rights Gaps in Latin America
- 5 Consequences of the Property Rights Gap
- 6 Opening and Closing a Property Rights Gap in Peru
- 7 The Long-Term Consequences of Peru’s Property Rights Gap
- 8 Property Rights Gaps around the World
- 9 Conclusion
- Book part
- References
- Index
- Other Books in the Series (continued from page iii)
5 - Consequences of the Property Rights Gap
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 December 2020
- Property without Rights
- Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
- Property without Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Conceptualizing and Measuring the Property Rights Gap
- 3 The Political Origins of the Property Rights Gap
- 4 Evidence on the Rise and Fall of Property Rights Gaps in Latin America
- 5 Consequences of the Property Rights Gap
- 6 Opening and Closing a Property Rights Gap in Peru
- 7 The Long-Term Consequences of Peru’s Property Rights Gap
- 8 Property Rights Gaps around the World
- 9 Conclusion
- Book part
- References
- Index
- Other Books in the Series (continued from page iii)
Summary
When rural populations hold land without property rights, this has important and wide-ranging economic, social, and political consequences. Property rights gaps keeps land reform beneficiaries dispersed across the countryside working in agriculture, slowing urbanization. Property rights gaps distort incentives to invest in improvements and inputs due to land tenure insecurity and a lack of access to credit, slowing growth in agricultural productivity. And property rights gaps are linked to urban policy bias by disadvantaging rural dwellers from accessing the same basic services such as education and opportunities for employment by the state that urban dwellers enjoy. These dynamics fuel economic inequality and they sow the seeds of underdevelopment and slow economic growth. Property rights gaps also have direct political consequences that shape the nature of access to power, the ability to translate preferences into policy, and contestation within society. They inhibit the ability of rural groups to exercise political power relative to cities. And they They are foster clientelism and vote buying rather than programmatic linkages between parties and voters.
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- Property without RightsOrigins and Consequences of the Property Rights Gap, pp. 168 - 202Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021