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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Albertus, Michael (1983-....)
Titre(s) : Property without rights [Texte imprimé] : origins and consequences of the property rights gap / Michael Albertus
Publication : Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVIII-391 pages) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Cambridge studies in comparative politics
Lien à la collection : Cambridge studies in comparative politics
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 353-374
"José swung the gate open, hopped back into the bed of the truck, and tapped the
window to the cab gently with the butt of his rifle. Iván cut the headlights and
put the truck in gear. We inched forward along the bumpy road that carved through
the broad southern Venezuelan plains, the dust rising in a thick cloud just behind
us. In a low voice, I asked José: "Wouldn't it be easier to find capybara with the
headlights on?" "I'll tell you tomorrow," he whispered in reply. "You'll see, on a
night like tonight, the moonlight reflects off their eyes."" ; "Major land reform
programs have reallocated property in more than one-third of the world's countries
in the last century and impacted over one billion people. But only rarely have these
programs granted beneficiaries complete property rights. Why is this the case, and
what are the consequences? This book draws on wide-ranging original data and charts
new conceptual terrain to reveal the political origins of the property rights gap.
It shows that land reform programs are most often implemented by authoritarian governments
who deliberately withhold property rights from beneficiaries. In so doing, governments
generate coercive leverage over rural populations and exert social control. This is
politically advantageous to ruling governments but it has negative development consequences:
it slows economic growth, productivity, and urbanization and it exacerbates inequality.
The book also examines the conditions under which subsequent governments close property
rights gaps, usually as a result of democratization or foreign pressure."
Sujet(s) : Réforme agraire -- Amérique latine
Propriété -- Amérique latine
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781108835237. - ISBN 1108835236. - ISBN 9781108799836. - ISBN 1108799833. -
ISBN 9781108891950 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb467690676
Notice n° :
FRBNF46769067
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Conceptualizing and measuring the property rights gap ; The political origins of
the property rights gap ; Evidence on the rise and fall of property rights gaps in
Latin America ; Consequences of the property rights gap ; Opening and closing a
property rights gap in Peru ; The long-term consequences of Peru's property rights
gap ; Property rights gaps around the world.
