Cultivate or Rent Out? Land Security in Rural Thailand

In the 1980s the Thai government tried to legalize squatters by issuing special titles that restricted the sale and rental of the land. Using data from 2,874 farming households collected in 1997, the author finds that in places where these government titles where issued, leased plots are more likely...

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Main Author:	Giné, Xavier
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS AGENTS AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES AGRICULTURAL LAND AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES AGRICULTURE CLASSIFICATION CLIMATIC ZONES COMMON LAND COMMUNITY FORESTS CONSERVATION CROPS CULTIVATED LAND CULTIVATION DEGRADED FORESTS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FARMLAND FOREST FOREST AREAS FOREST COVER FOREST DEPARTMENT FOREST LAND FOREST RESERVES FOREST VILLAGES FORESTRY FORESTRY SECTOR FORESTS GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS HUNTING LAND ALLOCATION LAND CODE LAND HOLDINGS LAND MARKETS LAND OWNER LAND OWNERSHIP LAND PREPARATION LAND PRICES LAND QUALITY LAND RECORDS LAND REFORM LAND RENTAL LAND RIGHTS LAND TITLING LAND USE LAND UTILIZATION LANDLESS HOUSEHOLDS LANDLESSNESS LANDOWNER LANDOWNERS LEASES LEASING LOGGING NATIONAL PARKS PLAINS PLOTS PRIVATE LAND PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC LAND PUBLIC LANDS RANGES REAL ESTATE RESERVE FOREST SQUATTERS STRATIFICATION TAXATION TENANTS WATERSHED WILDLIFE WILDLIFE CONSERVATION
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/10/6359655/cultivate-or-rent-out-land-security-rural-thailand http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8477

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spelling	okr-10986-84772021-04-23T14:02:43Z Cultivate or Rent Out? Land Security in Rural Thailand Giné, Xavier AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS AGENTS AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES AGRICULTURAL LAND AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES AGRICULTURE CLASSIFICATION CLIMATIC ZONES COMMON LAND COMMUNITY FORESTS CONSERVATION CROPS CULTIVATED LAND CULTIVATION DEGRADED FORESTS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FARMLAND FOREST FOREST AREAS FOREST COVER FOREST DEPARTMENT FOREST LAND FOREST RESERVES FOREST VILLAGES FORESTRY FORESTRY SECTOR FORESTS GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS HUNTING LAND ALLOCATION LAND CODE LAND HOLDINGS LAND MARKETS LAND OWNER LAND OWNERSHIP LAND PREPARATION LAND PRICES LAND QUALITY LAND RECORDS LAND REFORM LAND RENTAL LAND RIGHTS LAND TITLING LAND USE LAND UTILIZATION LANDLESS HOUSEHOLDS LANDLESSNESS LANDOWNER LANDOWNERS LEASES LEASING LOGGING NATIONAL PARKS PLAINS PLOTS PRIVATE LAND PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC LAND PUBLIC LANDS RANGES REAL ESTATE RESERVE FOREST SQUATTERS STRATIFICATION TAXATION TENANTS WATERSHED WILDLIFE WILDLIFE CONSERVATION In the 1980s the Thai government tried to legalize squatters by issuing special titles that restricted the sale and rental of the land. Using data from 2,874 farming households collected in 1997, the author finds that in places where these government titles where issued, leased plots are more likely to be titled than those that are self-cultivated. For these areas, he uses a model to estimate a 6 percent risk premium in the rental rate for untitled plots. In other areas, however, land rights play no role in the decision to lease land and the rental rate of untitled plots does not include a risk premium. The results indicate that this policy distorted the land rental market by triggering a sense of insecurity among landowners. 2012-06-19T20:04:04Z 2012-06-19T20:04:04Z 2005-10 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/10/6359655/cultivate-or-rent-out-land-security-rural-thailand http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8477 English Policy Research Working Paper; No. 3734 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research East Asia and Pacific Thailand
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topic	AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS AGENTS AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES AGRICULTURAL LAND AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES AGRICULTURE CLASSIFICATION CLIMATIC ZONES COMMON LAND COMMUNITY FORESTS CONSERVATION CROPS CULTIVATED LAND CULTIVATION DEGRADED FORESTS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FARMLAND FOREST FOREST AREAS FOREST COVER FOREST DEPARTMENT FOREST LAND FOREST RESERVES FOREST VILLAGES FORESTRY FORESTRY SECTOR FORESTS GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS HUNTING LAND ALLOCATION LAND CODE LAND HOLDINGS LAND MARKETS LAND OWNER LAND OWNERSHIP LAND PREPARATION LAND PRICES LAND QUALITY LAND RECORDS LAND REFORM LAND RENTAL LAND RIGHTS LAND TITLING LAND USE LAND UTILIZATION LANDLESS HOUSEHOLDS LANDLESSNESS LANDOWNER LANDOWNERS LEASES LEASING LOGGING NATIONAL PARKS PLAINS PLOTS PRIVATE LAND PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC LAND PUBLIC LANDS RANGES REAL ESTATE RESERVE FOREST SQUATTERS STRATIFICATION TAXATION TENANTS WATERSHED WILDLIFE WILDLIFE CONSERVATION
spellingShingle	AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS AGENTS AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES AGRICULTURAL LAND AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES AGRICULTURE CLASSIFICATION CLIMATIC ZONES COMMON LAND COMMUNITY FORESTS CONSERVATION CROPS CULTIVATED LAND CULTIVATION DEGRADED FORESTS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FARMLAND FOREST FOREST AREAS FOREST COVER FOREST DEPARTMENT FOREST LAND FOREST RESERVES FOREST VILLAGES FORESTRY FORESTRY SECTOR FORESTS GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS HUNTING LAND ALLOCATION LAND CODE LAND HOLDINGS LAND MARKETS LAND OWNER LAND OWNERSHIP LAND PREPARATION LAND PRICES LAND QUALITY LAND RECORDS LAND REFORM LAND RENTAL LAND RIGHTS LAND TITLING LAND USE LAND UTILIZATION LANDLESS HOUSEHOLDS LANDLESSNESS LANDOWNER LANDOWNERS LEASES LEASING LOGGING NATIONAL PARKS PLAINS PLOTS PRIVATE LAND PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC LAND PUBLIC LANDS RANGES REAL ESTATE RESERVE FOREST SQUATTERS STRATIFICATION TAXATION TENANTS WATERSHED WILDLIFE WILDLIFE CONSERVATION Giné, Xavier Cultivate or Rent Out? Land Security in Rural Thailand
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relation	Policy Research Working Paper; No. 3734
description	In the 1980s the Thai government tried to legalize squatters by issuing special titles that restricted the sale and rental of the land. Using data from 2,874 farming households collected in 1997, the author finds that in places where these government titles where issued, leased plots are more likely to be titled than those that are self-cultivated. For these areas, he uses a model to estimate a 6 percent risk premium in the rental rate for untitled plots. In other areas, however, land rights play no role in the decision to lease land and the rental rate of untitled plots does not include a risk premium. The results indicate that this policy distorted the land rental market by triggering a sense of insecurity among landowners.
format	Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author	Giné, Xavier
author_facet	Giné, Xavier
author_sort	Giné, Xavier
title	Cultivate or Rent Out? Land Security in Rural Thailand
title_short	Cultivate or Rent Out? Land Security in Rural Thailand
title_full	Cultivate or Rent Out? Land Security in Rural Thailand
title_fullStr	Cultivate or Rent Out? Land Security in Rural Thailand
title_full_unstemmed	Cultivate or Rent Out? Land Security in Rural Thailand
title_sort	cultivate or rent out? land security in rural thailand
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2012
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/10/6359655/cultivate-or-rent-out-land-security-rural-thailand http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8477
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Cultivate or Rent Out? Land Security in Rural Thailand

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