The Powerful, the Powerless, and the Grabbing: Non-Nash Land Grabbing in the Lab

Albrecht, Felix; Frank, Björn; Gobien, Simone; Hartmann, Maren; Ihtiyar, Özcan; Khachatryan, Elina; Kusa, Nataliya; Rashad, Ahmed Shoukry; Sabry, Mohamed Ismail; Shaheen, Sondos; Stöber, Thomas

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“…This second process may last for a short time or may go on for a long time and touch LSLAs. A paper by Albrecht et al (2016) concentrates on the risk of expropriation of the foreign investment by local authorities. This danger exists for almost all foreign direct investments, never entirely immune from future policies which may be quite severe towards foreign properties and allow for partial or entire expropriation.…”

Section: Are Lslas Fair?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To describe land grabbing with the expropriation Albrecht et al (2016) devise a lab experiment that mimics a two stage three game. The game is labelled ''Land Grabbing Game'' with three players: landowners (L), investors (I) and local authorities (A).…”

Section: Are Lslas Fair?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This makes for a dreadful difference since the behavior of a large enterprise can hardly be simulated by the choices of an undergraduate. What are the results of the analysis of Albrecht et al (2016)? The main question concerns the preferences of players A and I.…”

Section: Are Lslas Fair?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Land Grabbing: Last Ditch Effort of Colonialism? A Survey of a Few Contributions and a Couple of Suggestions

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We present a survey of a few recent papers on Large Scale Land Acquisition (LSLA), a phenomenon that has become globally manifest since the beginning of the new millennium, in particular in Africa. The papers we look over examine outstanding aspects of LSLA, such as the benefits and damages produced by sale of land by landowners to foreign buyers, the local implications in terms of displacement and employment of incumbent farmers, the possible corruption of hosting governments and mighty foreign enterprises, the degree of fairness of LSLA, the expropriation threats of foreign investment by local authorities, the political economy aftermath and the risk that LSLA may generate conflicts between poor peripheries and a richer core. The examination of all these aspects of LSLA makes for a rather skeptical and cautious overall stance as it appears that traces of old colonialism persist and environmental unscrupulousness is quite common.

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Section: Are Lslas Fair?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Are Lslas Fair?mentioning

confidence: 99%