Although today's richest countries tend to have long histories of secure private property rights, legal-titling projects do little to improve the economic and political well-being of those in the developing world. This book employs a historical narrative based on secondary literature, fieldwork across thirty villages, and a nationally representative survey to explore how private property institutions develop, how they are maintained, and their relationship to the state and state-building within the context of Afghanistan. In this predominantly rural society, citizens cannot rely on the state to enforce their claims to ownership. Instead, they rely on community-based land registration, which has a long and stable history and is often more effective at protecting private property rights than state registration. In addition to contributing significantly to the literature on Afghanistan, this book makes a valuable contribution to the literature on property rights and state governance from the new institutional economics perspective.
ISBN: | 9781108493413 |
Publication date: | 9th September 2021 |
Author: | Jennifer Brick (University of Pittsburgh) Murtazashvili, Ilia (University of Pittsburgh) Murtazashvili |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 380 pages |
Series: | Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society |
Genres: |
Political economy Property law: general Armed conflict Government powers |