Data for The Inefficacy of Land Titling Programs: Homesteading in Haiti, 1933—1950
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Craig Palsson, Utah State University; Seth Porter, Utah State University
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Project Citation:
Palsson, Craig, and Porter, Seth. Data for The Inefficacy of Land Titling Programs: Homesteading in Haiti, 1933—1950. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-07-29. https://doi.org/10.3886/E208208V1
Project Description
Summary:
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One
of the most common policy recommendations in developing countries is titling
land. Yet, titling programs around the developing world frequently fail to
produce many titles. We try to understand these failures by exploring a titling
program in Haiti in the 1930s. The program offered tenants renting public land
an opportunity to privatize the land as a homestead, giving them an official title
and ending rental payments. Making use of archival data on all homesteads
granted in the first 16 years, we find the program created fewer than 700 homesteads.
We discuss potential reasons for the program’s failure and argue that it failed
because it required homesteaders to farm at least 50% of the plot in cash crops.
We discuss whether this requirement was the government’s attempt to extract
revenues from the land in the absence of other options or whether it was an
intentional barrier to resist foreign interference.
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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economic history;
haiti;
homestead
Geographic Coverage:
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Haiti
Time Period(s):
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1933 – 1950
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