Breaking up the Collective Farm : Welfare Outcomes of Vietnam's Massive Land Privatization

Ravallion, Martin ; van de Walle, Dominique

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: AGRICULTURAL LAND;    AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION;    AGRICULTURE;    ALLOCATION OF LAND;    ARABLE LAND;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-2710
RP-ID  :  WPS2710

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The decollectivization of agriculture inVietnam was a crucial step in the country's transitionto a market economy. But the assignment of land use rightshad to be decentralized, and local cadres ostensibly had thepower to corrupt this process. The authors assess therealized land allocation against explicit counterfactuals,including the simulated allocation implied by a competitivemarket-based privatization. The authors find that 95-99percent of maximum aggregate consumption (depending on theregion) was realized by a land allocation that reducedoverall inequality, with the poorest absolutely better off.They attribute this outcome to initial conditions at thetime of reform and actions by the center to curtail thepower of local elites.