The policy and praxis of compensation for land expropriations in China: An appraisal from the perspective of social exclusion

Hui, Eddie C.M.; Bao, Haijun; Zhang, Xiaoling

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.11.004

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“…15 Since parcels that are not near other parcels are not part of a cluster, these parcels are dropped, leading to 5,675 observations in 1,874 clusters for the residential land sample and 4,052 observations in 1,410 clusters for the commercial land sample. 16 We refer to these data as the matched sample.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…By Chinese law, urban land is owned by the state, and rural land is owned by local economic collectives. To facilitate urban expansion, local governments acquire land from farmers at the urban fringe, paying compensation that is often substantially below market value (Ding 2007, Hui et al 2013). The local governments then transfer land-use rights to independent developers via a leasehold, generating revenue that can be used for public investment and other purposes.…”

Section: Institutional Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Measuring the Stringency of Land Use Regulation: The Case of China's Building Height Limits

Brueckner

et al. 2017

The Review of Economics and Statistics

104

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This paper develops a new approach for measuring the stringency of a major form of land-use regulation, building-height restrictions, and it applies the method to an extraordinary dataset of land-lease transactions from China. Our theory shows that the elasticity of land price with respect to the floor-area ratio (FAR), an indicator of the allowed building height for the parcel, is a measure of the regulation's stringency (the extent to which FAR is kept below the free-market level). Using a national sample, estimation that allows this elasticity to be city-specific shows substantial variation in the stringency of FAR regulation across Chinese cities, and additional evidence suggests that stringency depends on certain city characteristics in a predictable fashion. Singlecity estimation for the large Beijing subsample, where site characteristics can be added to the regression, indicates that the stringency of FAR regulation varies with certain site characteristics, again in a predictable way (being high near the Tiananmen historical sites). Further results using a different dataset show that FAR limits in Beijing are adjusted in response to demand forces created by new subway stops.

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Section: Results Using Cluster Fixed Effects (Matched-pair Approach)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Institutional Backgroundmentioning

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Measuring the Stringency of Land Use Regulation: The Case of China's Building Height Limits

Brueckner

et al. 2017

The Review of Economics and Statistics

104

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“…Only a few dissatisfied landacquired households admitted some disadvantages of environmental outcomes such as cleaner living environment. These findings support the research of Morris-Jung and Roth (2010), Kusiluka et al (2011), andGe andNing (2012), and Hui et al (2013) in indicating the negative environment outcomes of land acquisition. Conversely, they contradict Q.…”

Section: Environmental Inputs and Outcomessupporting

confidence: 89%

“…As a result, the amount of payment received is inadequate to enable the relocated people to set up similar settlements and maintain their normal lives. This insufficiency of compensation is exacerbated by the delays in compensation that have plunged land-acquired households into more financial difficulties (Behera, 2015;Hui, Bao, & Zhang, 2013;Kusiluka et al, 2011). Furthermore, land acquisition can place land-acquired households in a situation of facing issues of livelihood in the long term if they are farmers whose land is their only mean of living (Ghatak & Mookherjee, 2011;Kabra, 2016;Kusiluka et al, 2011;Van de Walle & Cratty, 2002).…”

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Equity issues in land acquisition: A source of delays in large construction projects in Vietnam

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Delays in construction projects have been a recurring and global problem for decades. In many countries, particularly developing countries, delays in land acquisition are considered one of the largest contributors of delays in large construction projects. In Vietnam, one key cause of these delays stems from equity perceptions of land-acquired communities who perceive themselves to be disadvantaged or let down by the land acquisition process. However, the formation of these equity perceptions has not been sufficiently investigated. Further, the relationship between equity issues on perceptions of land-acquired households and delays in construction projects has also not been clarified by existing literature that cannot help to adequately figure out solutions to these delays.Therefore, this research aims to investigate the formation of equity perceptions of land-acquired households and the relationship between equity issues and delays in construction projects. To implement this aim, a theoretical model is proposed that link between equity issues, comparisons, equity perceptions, and responses of landacquired communities causing delays in large construction projects in Vietnam.After that, the case study approach and semi-structured interviews of 40 landacquired households are conducted across two case studies, which are two large construction projects in Vietnam. Content and thematic analysis of the data collected was performed using Nvivo software to verify the four propositions issues and delays, which can help to address minimise delays in large construction projects. In addition, the principles of equity may be applied to project management to improve project performance, which in turn, will enable more successful project outcomes.

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“…The process of expropriation often involves either threats of violence or actual violence, and attempts by expropriated farmers to protest against perceived injustice can be blocked in various ways [37]. There are no independent courts for the owners of rural farmland to appeal for unjust treatment [38]. Therefore, higher property rights integrity may only provide a weak contribution to perceived tenure security in the face of land expropriation.…”

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confidence: 99%

Does Property Rights Integrity Improve Tenure Security? Evidence from China’s Forest Reform

Zhou

et al. 2018

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Abstract:The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of land property rights integrity, subdivided into use rights, mortgage rights, and transfer rights, on household perceptions of long-term tenure security in China. To this end, we establish a theoretical framework that links China's collective forest tenure reforms undertaken since 2003 to property rights integrity and two sources of tenure (in)security based on property rights theory: forestland reallocation and expropriation. Probit models are applied in the empirical analysis to household data collected in Jiangxi province in 2011 and 2013. The results indicate that household perceptions of tenure insecurity resulting from forestland reallocation expectations are affected by transfer rights, whereas household perceptions of insecurity resulting from forestland expropriation expectations are not affected by forestland rights. We thus suggest that it is crucial for policymakers to identify the sources of local property rights insecurity before they take steps to strengthen land tenure security. This paper contributes to the available literature on the relationship between property rights integrity and tenure security by identifying different sources of tenure insecurity, emphasizing the effect of property rights integrity on long-term tenure security, and taking into account the potential endogeneity problem.

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The policy and praxis of compensation for land expropriations in China: An appraisal from the perspective of social exclusion

Cited by 116 publications

References 15 publications

Measuring the Stringency of Land Use Regulation: The Case of China's Building Height Limits

Measuring the Stringency of Land Use Regulation: The Case of China's Building Height Limits

Equity issues in land acquisition: A source of delays in large construction projects in Vietnam

Does Property Rights Integrity Improve Tenure Security? Evidence from China’s Forest Reform

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