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Fichier |
Type de dépôt |
Pré-publication, Document de travail |
Titre |
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Global Land Inequality
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Résumé |
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Agricultural land is vital for three out of four of the poorest billion individuals in the world yet little is known about the distribution of agricultural land. Existing crosscountry estimates of land inequality, based on agriculture census data, measure the size distribution of agricultural holdings. These neither reflect land ownership inequality nor value inequality and often do not account for the landless population. In this paper, we tackle these issues and provide novel and consistent estimates of land inequality across countries, based on household surveys. We show that i) land-value inequality can dier signicantly from land-area inequality, ii) dierences in the proportion of landless across countries vary substantially, aecting markedly inequality estimates and, iii) regional patterns in inequality according to our benchmark metric (landvalue inequality including the landless) contradict existing estimates from agricultural censuses. Overall, South Asia and Latin America exhibit the highest inequality with top 10% landowners capturing up to 75% of agricultural land, followed by Africa and `Communist' Asia (China and Vietnam) at levels around 55-60%. .
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Auteur(s)
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Luis Bauluz
1, 2
, Yajna Govind
3, 4, 1
, Filip Novokmet
2, 1
1
Universität Bonn = University of Bonn
( 63690 )
- D-53012 Bonn
- Allemagne
2
WIL -
World Inequality Lab
( 1006727 )
- 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
- France
3
PSE -
Paris School of Economics
( 301309 )
- 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
- France
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Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne ( 7550 )
;
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École normale supérieure - Paris ( 59704 )
;
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Université Paris Sciences et Lettres ( 564132 )
;
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École des hautes études en sciences sociales ( 99539 )
;
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École des Ponts ParisTech ( 301545 )
;
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( 441569 )
;
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Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement ( 577435 )
4
PJSE -
Paris Jourdan Sciences Economiques
( 578027 )
- 48 boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris
- France
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Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne UMR8545 ( 7550 )
;
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École normale supérieure - Paris ( 59704 )
;
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Université Paris Sciences et Lettres ( 564132 )
;
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École des hautes études en sciences sociales ( 99539 )
;
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École des Ponts ParisTech ( 301545 )
;
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( 441569 )
;
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Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement UMR1393 ( 577435 )
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Public visé |
Scientifique
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Langue du document |
Anglais
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Date de production/écriture |
2020-06
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Domaine(s) |
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Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Economies et finances
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Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Economies et finances
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Mots-clés (JEL) |
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D - Microeconomics/D.D3 - Distribution/D.D3.D31 - Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
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E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics/E.E0 - General/E.E0.E01 - Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth • Environmental Accounts
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H - Public Economics/H.H2 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
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Référence interne |
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World Inequality Lab Working Papers n°2020-10
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World Inequality Lab Working Papers n°2020-10
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Mots-clés |
en
Inequality, Capital gains, Income shifting, Top shares, Land Ownership, Distribution
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