Indigenous Land Rights Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Constraint on Productivity?
利用加纳、肯尼亚和卢旺达1987-88年的截面数据，检验土著土地权利体系是否制约生产力，发现其随商业化和人口压力自发向个人化权利演变，且对土地转让的限制并未显著降低生产率。
This article uses cross-sectional evidence from Ghana, Kenya, and Rwanda in 1987-88 to examine the question, Are indigenous land rights systems in sub-Saharan Africa a constraint on productivity? The evidence supports the hypothesis suggested by historical studies, that African indigenous land rights systems have spontaneously evolved from systems of communal control toward individual sized rights in response to increases in commercialization and population pressure. Cross-sectional data on the incidence of land improvements and on land yields provide little support for the view that limitations under indigenous law on the right to transfer land are a constraint on productivity. Copyright 1991 by Oxford University Press.