Editorial
Introduction: Land and property rights
This special issue of the Journal of Development Economics
originatesfromaUNU-WIDER research project on land inequality
anddecentralizedgovernance in LDCs. The research began in late 2010
with DilipMookherjee and Pranab Bardhan jointly directing the
project; one ofthe rst project activities was an authors' workshop
organised byUNU-WIDER in Hanoi in January 2011 and hosted by the
Central Insti-tute for Economic Management (CIEM), Ministry of
Planning andInvestment (MPI), Vietnam. A series of papers were
presented at theworkshop under the wide umbrella of land
reformincluding land dis-tribution, property rights, farming,
tenure, poverty, and migration. Fol-lowing the workshop, the
Journal of Development Economics launched acall for papers for the
special issue. We received 39 submissions in total
of the papers followed the journal's standard refereeing
process. Of the11 papers accepted for the special issue, 7 are the
result of the UNU-WIDER project. We understand that UNU-WIDER is
grateful for the -nancial contributions to its research programme
from the governmentsof Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and the United
Kingdom.
Christopher UdrySpecial Issue Editor
Department of Economics, Yale University, United States
Journal of Development Economics 110 (2014) 170
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Introduction: Land and property rights
