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dc.titleEvaluating the impact of Land Administration Programs on agricultural productivity and rural development
dc.contributor.authorGignoux, Jérémie
dc.contributor.authorMacours, Karen
dc.contributor.authorWren-Lewis, Liam
dc.contributor.orgunitEnvironment, Rural Development Disaster Risk Management Division
dc.contributor.orgunitOffice of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness
dc.date.available2013-02-14T00:00:00
dc.date.issue2013-01-01T00:00:00
dc.description.abstractInvestment in land administration projects is often considered key for agricultural productivity and rural development. The evidence on such interventions is however remarkably mixed. This paper discusses a number of challenges and derives related guidelines for the impact evaluation of land administration programs. We focus on four types of challenges: 1) a conceptual challenge related to the need to unbundle property rights and to establish the plausible causal chain for land administration interventions; 2) the existence of other binding constraints on productivity, implying the need to consider the complementarity between property rights and other productive interventions; 3) methodological challenges related to the causal identification of the impacts of such interventions; 4) practical and operational challenges for good impact evaluation on land administration, which are often operationally complex and politically sensitive. The paper is specifically written with a focus on land administration projects in Latin America, and draws from experiences and lessons learned from impact evaluations designed for the IDB, and other donors-funded land administration projects in the region.
dc.format.extent94
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0009086
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Evaluating-the-impact-of-Land-Administration-Programs-on-agricultural-productivity-and-rural-development.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.mediumAdobe PDF
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectAgriculture, Food Security and Rural Development
dc.subjectImpact Evaluation
dc.subject.jelcodeD23 - Organizational Behavior • Transaction Costs • Property Rights
dc.subject.jelcodeH43 - Project Evaluation • Social Discount Rate
dc.subject.jelcodeO13 - Agriculture • Natural Resources • Energy • Environment • Other Primary Products
dc.subject.jelcodeQ15 - Land Ownership and Tenure • Land Reform • Land Use • Irrigation • Agriculture and Environment
dc.typeTechnical Notes
idb.identifier.pubnumberTechnical Notes
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