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Michael Dunford - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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state Land Policy Land markets and geographies of manufacturing the case of beijing china
Land Use Policy, 2014Co-Authors: Gao Boyang, Liu Weidong, Michael DunfordAbstract:The aim of this article is to explore the relationship between state Land policies, Land markets and geographies of manufacturing in Beijing. Industries have decentralised moving from the centre, and agglomerating in various types of development zone in the outer city. The new patterns of industrial location in Beijing are to a significant extent due to state Land policies that impact on manufacturing geographies through Land prices, the Land supply system and Land property reforms. However, industrial relocation involves not only negotiations between government and firms, but is also a game played among different levels of government. National, provincial, municipal, county and even rural level governments bargain with each other to shape and gain from the relocation of industries.
Chengri Ding - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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urban spatial development in the Land Policy reform era evidence from beijing
Urban Studies, 2004Co-Authors: Chengri DingAbstract:This paper examines the characteristics of urban spatial development in Beijing and identifies the extent to which these characteristics can be attributed to the emerging Land market in Beijing as ...
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Land Policy reform in china assessment and prospects
Land Use Policy, 2003Co-Authors: Chengri DingAbstract:Abstract China has launched a series of Land Policy reforms to improve Land-use efficiency, to rationalize Land allocation, to enhance Land management, and to coordinate urban and rural development. These Land Policy reforms have yielded positive impacts on urban Land use as well as negative socioeconomic consequences. On the positive side, they have contributed to emerging Land markets, increased government revenue for the financing of massive infrastructure projects and provision of public goods, and improved the rationalization of Land use. On the negative side, problems such as loss of social equity, socioeconomic conflicts, and government corruption have emerged. This paper reviews China's Land Policy reform in a historical context and then examines the impacts on urban development and Land use. Policy implications are discussed at the end.
Ping Wang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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rural urban migration and house prices in china
Research Papers in Economics, 2020Co-Authors: Carlos Garriga, Aaron Hedlund, Yang Tang, Ping WangAbstract:This paper uses a dynamic competitive spatial equilibrium framework to evaluate the contribution of rural-urban migration induced by structural transformation to the behavior of Chinese housing markets. In the model, technological progress drives workers facing heterogeneous mobility costs to migrate from the rural agricultural sector to the higher paying urban manufacturing sector. Upon arrival to the city, workers purchase housing using long-term mortgages. Quantitatively, the model fits cross-sectional house price behavior across a representative sample of Chinese cities between 2003 and 2015. The model is then used to evaluate how changes to city migration policies and Land supply regulations affect the speed of urbanization and house price appreciation. The analysis indicates that making migration Policy more egalitarian or Land Policy more uniform would promote urbanization but also would contribute to larger house price dispersion.
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rural urban migration and house prices in china
Social Science Research Network, 2020Co-Authors: Carlos Garriga, Aaron Hedlund, Yang Tang, Ping WangAbstract:This paper uses a dynamic competitive spatial equilibrium framework to evaluate the contribution of rural-urban migration induced by structural transformation to the behavior of Chinese housing markets. In the model, technological progress drives workers facing heterogeneous mobility costs to migrate from the rural agricultural sector to the higher paying urban manufacturing sector. Upon arrival to the city, workers purchase housing using long-term mortgages. Quantitatively, the model fits cross-sectional house price behavior across a representative sample of Chinese cities between 2003 and 2015. The model is then used to evaluate how changes to city migration policies and Land supply regulations affect the speed of urbanization and house price appreciation. The analysis indicates that making migration Policy more egalitarian or Land Policy more uniform would promote urbanization but also would contribute to larger house price dispersion. Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and residents of developing countries may download this paper without additional charge at www.nber.org.
Diego Restuccia - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Land reform and productivity a quantitative analysis with micro data
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2020Co-Authors: Tasso Adamopoulos, Diego RestucciaAbstract:We assess the eects of a major Land Policy change on farm size and agricultural productivity, using a quantitative model and micro-level data. In particular, we study the 1988 Land reform in the Philippines, which was an extensive Land redistribution program that imposed a ceiling of 5 hectares on all Land holdings while at the same time severely restricting the transferability of the redistributed farm Lands. Our micro data allow us to track a set of Philippine farmers, before and after the reform, oering rich input and output information at the parcel-level. This data allows us to obtain precise measures of farm-level productivity, and study how the choices of farmers changed following the reform. We decompose the change in aggregate agricultural productivity, following the reform, into: (a) a reallocation eect, whereby farming activity is shifted from large farms to small farms and (b) a within-farm eect. We
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Land reform and productivity a quantitative analysis with micro data
National Bureau of Economic Research, 2014Co-Authors: Tasso Adamopoulos, Diego RestucciaAbstract:We assess the effects of a major Land-Policy change on farm size and agricultural productivity using a quantitative model and micro-level data. We study the 1988 Land reform in the Philippines that imposed a ceiling on Land holdings and severely restricted the transferability of the redistributed farm Lands. We study this reform in the context of an industry model of agriculture with a non-degenerate distribution of farm sizes featuring an occupation decision and a technology choice of farm operators. In this model, a Land reform reduces agricultural productivity not only by misallocating resources from large/high productivity farms to incumbent small/low productivity farms, but also by distorting farmers' occupation and technology adoption decisions. The model, calibrated to pre-reform farm-level data in the Philippines, implies that on impact the Land reform reduces average farm size by 34% and agricultural productivity by 17%. The government assignment of Land and the ban on its transfer are key for the magnitude of the results since a market allocation of the above-ceiling Land produces only 1/3 of the size and productivity effects. These results emphasize the potential role of Land market efficiency for misallocation and productivity in the agricultural sector.
Ruth Hall - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a political economy of Land reform in south africa
Review of African Political Economy, 2004Co-Authors: Ruth HallAbstract:Land reform is one way in which the ‘new’ South Africa set out to redress the injustices of apartheid and, by redistributing Land to black South Africans, to transform the structural basis of racial inequality. During the first decade of democracy, Land reform has fallen far short of both public expectations and official targets. This article describes the progress of the programme and its changing nature. It is argued that a recent shift in Land Policy, from a focus on the rural poor to ‘emerging’ black commercial farmers, is consistent with changes in macro-economic Policy and reflects shifting class alliances. The programme now appears to pursue a limited deracialisation of the commercial farming areas rather than a process of agrarian restructuring. Most fundamentally, Land reform has not yet provided a strategy to overcome agrarian dualism. This paper draws on research by the author under the aegis of the ‘Evaluating Land and Agrarian Reform in South Africa’ research programme at the Programme for La...
