The Centre of Research in the Economics of Development (CRED) is a center for research devoted to studying problems of economic development, particularly issues of micro-institutions, collective action, market development, and political economics.
Most of the research carried out inCRED is based on first-hand data collected by members in various countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Works of both theoretical and empirical nature are regularly produced by a staff of six permanent academic members and between 10to 15 PhD students and post-doc researchers.
The main themes of research around which works of the CRED articulate are the following:
- Institutions, Social Norms and Development
- Aid, Governance, and Development
- Poverty and Livelihood Strategies
- Political Economics, Conflicts and Agrarian Relationship
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Displaying 1 - 1 of 1Land Tenure under Unendurable Stress: Rwanda Caught in the Malthusian Trap
This paper reports the findings of an in-depth case study of a highly densely populated area in the Northwest of Rwanda which has been conducted during the period 1988-1993. It demonstrates that acute competition for land in a context characterized by too slow expansion of non-agricultural income opportunities has resulted in increasingly unequal land distribution and rapid processes of land dispossession through both operation of the (illegal) land market and evolution of indigenous tenure arrangements.