Economic benefits and costs of land redistribution in Zimbabwe in the early 1980s

World Development

Volumn 32, Issue 10 SPEC.ISS., 2004, Pages 1697-1709

  Deininger, Klaus ^a   Hoogeveen, Hans ^a   Kinsey, Bill H ^b,c  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

Economic returns; Land reform; Propensity score matching; Zimbabwe

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC IMPACT; LAND REFORM; RESETTLEMENT POLICY;

AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 5744244970     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2004.06.006     Document Type: Article

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