Journal of Development Economics 110 (2014) 170

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Editorial

Introduction: Land and property rights

This special issue of the Journal of Development Economics originates

from a UNU-WIDER research project on land inequality and decentralized
governance in LDCs. The research began in late 2010 with Dilip
Mookherjee and Pranab Bardhan jointly directing the project; one of
the rst project activities was an authors' workshop organised by
UNU-WIDER in Hanoi in January 2011 and hosted by the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM), Ministry of Planning and
Investment (MPI), Vietnam. A series of papers were presented at the
workshop under the wide umbrella of land reformincluding land distribution, property rights, farming, tenure, poverty, and migration. Following the workshop, the Journal of Development Economics launched a
call for papers for the special issue. We received 39 submissions in total

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of the papers followed the journal's standard refereeing process. Of the

11 papers accepted for the special issue, 7 are the result of the UNUWIDER project. We understand that UNU-WIDER is grateful for the nancial contributions to its research programme from the governments
of Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

Christopher Udry
Special Issue Editor
Department of Economics, Yale University, United States