Power, Property Rights and the Issue of Land Reform: A General Case Illustrated with Reference to Bangladesh

Khan, Mushtaq

doi:10.1111/j.1471-0366.2004.00073.x

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“…Land fragmentation may partly be responsible for the slow and uneven diffusion of modern technology in Bangladesh. Khan (2004) rightly points out that increasing fragmentation of land in Bangladesh is a cause of worry rather than an indication of a well-functioning land market as the World Bank claims. The general implication of a liberalised land market is that it could enable landowners to consolidate their plots by selling land further away from home and purchasing land closer to home and/or existing plots.…”

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“…For example, the consistently declining land person ratio over time shows the importance of demographic pressure in Bangladesh ( Table 1). Presence of this demographic pressure together with inheritance laws, which divide land equally among all brothers and half of brothers' share to sisters (occasionally), provides a powerful tendency towards increasing land fragmentation (Khan, 2004). Historically, land is seen as the ultimate source of wealth in rural Bangladesh.…”

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Impact of land fragmentation and resource ownership on productivity and efficiency: The case of rice producers in Bangladesh

2009

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a b s t r a c tThe paper analyzes the impact of land fragmentation and ownership of resources on productivity and technical efficiency in rice production in Bangladesh using farm level survey data. Results reveal that land fragmentation has a significant detrimental effect on productivity and efficiency as expected. The elasticity estimates of land fragmentation reveal that a 1% increase in land fragmentation reduces rice output by 0.05% and efficiency by 0.03%. On the other hand, ownership of key resources (land, family labour, and draft animals) significantly increases efficiency. The mean elasticity estimates reveal that a 1% increase in family labour and owned draft animal improve technical efficiency by 0.04% and 0.03%, respectively. Also, a 1% increase in the adoption of modern technology improves efficiency by 0.04%. The mean technical efficiency in rice production is estimated at 0.91 indicating little scope to improve rice production per se using existing varieties. Policy implications include addressing structural causes of land fragmentation (e.g., law of inheritance and political economy of agrarian structure), building of physical capital (e.g., land and livestock resources), improvements in extension services and adoption of modern rice technology.

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Impact of land fragmentation and resource ownership on productivity and efficiency: The case of rice producers in Bangladesh

2009

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“…Land holdings are important requirement playing significant role in the socio-economic status for rural as well as peri-urban people of Bangladesh (Khan, 2004 Safe and clean drinking water is the most valued elements in society (Tellegen et al 1996). In Bangladesh, the water supplies are based on collecting rainwater, ponds pit walls, shallow and deep tube-well.…”

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Crab Fattening in Bangladesh: A Socio-economic Perspective

Ferdoushi

2015

J. Environ. Sci. & Natural Resources

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Abstract:The study was conducted to assess the socio-economic condition of the crab fatteners in the southwest part of Bangladesh. About 52% farmers have an experience of 5 to 10 years of indicating that involvement in mud crab fattening is the recent development and innovation in those areas. The Hindus in the coastal region found to have more interest in crab farming. On the other hand, about 27% Muslim were also found to involve in this farming. Comparatively higher involvements of Hindus farmers were found in Khulna region. Mostly young people found to have more involvement ranging from 26 to 35 years old which constituted more than 38% of the total interviewed population. About 40% farmers showed higher satisfaction by crab fattening while, few farmers reported some negative perception. Most of their farming were small scale and the farmers also accounted the higher seed cost with low profitability. However, well developed co-operation and partnership between farmers, fishermen, middlemen and wholesaler can also improve this sector for sustainable development.

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“…Andreasson (2006) and Arrighi (2004) reinforce this view; de Angelis (2001) goes further, claiming that the defining characteristic of primitive accumulation is that it occurs other than through the market, principally involving force. Khan (2004) deploys the case of Bangladesh to similar effect.…”

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Primitive accumulation in modern China

Webber

2008

Dialect Anthropol

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This article surveys the history of primitive accumulation in China, from the early 1980s to the mid 2000s. It observes that the principal means of primitive accumulation have been the transformation of state and collective enterprises into capital, the peasants' loss of land through various forms of dispossession, and the voluntary migration of peasants from agricultural to industrial pursuits. These mix dispossession and market mechanisms in complex ways. They have involved the creation of markets; but more, the creation of workers and capital. While the processes that drive primitive accumulation have economic logics, they also have logics that derive from concerns over social welfare, over environmental management, and over ethnic struggles. Furthermore, the state has been closely involved in the entire process-as a regionally differentiated actor, directly involved in ownership, asset transformation and the control of migration. Primitive accumulation in China does not have one motive, does not simply reflect class interests, is not a particular case of a global capitalist project, but is complex and localised.The nature and dynamics of primitive accumulation have been widely debated. Empirical, theoretical and polemical contributions have drawn on the experience of various parts of

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Power, Property Rights and the Issue of Land Reform: A General Case Illustrated with Reference to Bangladesh

Cited by 50 publications

References 16 publications

Impact of land fragmentation and resource ownership on productivity and efficiency: The case of rice producers in Bangladesh

Impact of land fragmentation and resource ownership on productivity and efficiency: The case of rice producers in Bangladesh

Crab Fattening in Bangladesh: A Socio-economic Perspective

Primitive accumulation in modern China

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