Land Titling and Rural Transition in Vietnam

We examine the impact of the 1993 Land Law of Vietnam, which gave households the power to exchange, transfer, lease, inherit, and mortgage their land-use rights. We use household surveys before and after the law was passed, together with the considerable variation across provinces in the speed of im...

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Published in:Economic development and cultural change 2008-04, Vol.56 (3), p.531-579
Main Authors: Do, Quy‐Toan, Iyer, Lakshmi
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agricultural land
Agricultural production
Agriculture and Environment Q150
Certificates
Communes
Credit
Crop economics
Crops
Economic change
Economic development
Education and Training: Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty P360
Formal and Informal Sectors
Health
Illegal Behavior P370
Institutional Arrangements O170
Investment
Irrigation
Land economics
Land law
Land Ownership and Tenure
Land Reform
Land rights
Land surveying
Land tenure
Land titles
Land Use
Land utilization
Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development O120
Property
Property rights
Rural communities
Rural conditions
Rural development
Shadow Economy
Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: Consumer Economics
Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Legal Institutions
Vietnam
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Summary:We examine the impact of the 1993 Land Law of Vietnam, which gave households the power to exchange, transfer, lease, inherit, and mortgage their land-use rights. We use household surveys before and after the law was passed, together with the considerable variation across provinces in the speed of implementation of the reform, to identify the impact of the law. We find that the additional land rights led to statistically significant increases in the share of total area devoted to long-term crops and in labor devoted to nonfarm activities. However, these changes are not large in magnitude and appear to be driven mainly by the increased security of tenure provided by the law rather than by increased access to credit markets or greater land market participation.
ISSN:0013-0079
1539-2988
DOI:10.1086/533549