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Trees, Tenure and Conflict: Rubber in Colonial BeninPart of Journal Special Issue Land and Property Rights
Agricultural industries Land reform Land tenureJournal Article
Poverty and Land RedistributionPart of Journal Special Issue Land and Property Rights
Economic development Land reform Land tenureJournal Article
Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa: Pilot Evidence from RwandaPart of Journal Special Issue Land and Property Rights
Finance (Agriculture) Land tenure Laws and legislation (Land use)Journal Article
Land Acquisition for Industrialization and Compensation of Displaced FarmersPart of Journal Special Issue Land and Property Rights
Compensation management Industrialization Land tenureJournal Article
Intergenerational Mobility and Interpersonal Inequality in an African EconomyPart of Journal Special Issue Land and Property Rights
Consumption Equality and inequality Land tenureJournal Special Issue
Land and Property RightsThis special issue of the Journal of Development Economics originates from a UNU-WIDER research project on land inequality and decentralized governance in LDCs...
Economic development Land tenure Land useWorking Paper
Cambodia’s Land Management and Administration ProjectThis paper presents the case of World Bank support to the mass titling component of the Cambodia Land Management and Administration Project...
Agriculture Land tenure Laws and legislation (Land use)Working Paper
Can Climate Finance Achieve Gender Equity in Developing Countries?We develop the climate finance-gender equity framework in this paper and use the ‘contextual-procedural-distributive’ equity as a lens of analysis to examine how climate finance helps challenge, and reinforce, gender inequities in the mit...
Sociology of economics Environmental economics EquityWorking Paper
Changes in Land Tenure and Agricultural Intensification in Sub-Saharan AfricaDue to increasing population pressure on limited cultivable land in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), farm size has been shrinking, fallow periods have been shortened, and soil fertility has been declining...
Agriculture Environmental economics Land tenureJournal Article
The Efficiency of India's Cities: Is There a Case to Finance Them?One reason for unsatisfactory public service delivery in Indian cities is that city finances are in poor condition...
Land tenure Public investments Public utilitiesBook Chapter
Access to Land: Market and Non-market Land Transactions in Rural VietnamBy applying a unified framework, this book examines the impact of land tenure reforms on poverty reduction and natural resource management in countries in Africa and Asia with highly diverse historical contexts...
Land reform Land tenure Land useWorking Paper
The Effects of Rural Land Right Security on Labour Structural Transformation and Urbanization: Evidence from ThailandThis paper attempts to contribute to the understanding of the impacts of secure rural agricultural land rights on labour structural transformation from agriculture to non-agriculture as well as on urbanization, with a specific focus on Thailand...
Labour Land tenure Rural developmentBook Chapter
Women and Landed Property in Urban India: Negotiating Closed Doors and Windows of OpportunityFrom the book: Urbanization and Development in Asia
Government spending policy Land tenure Urban planningWorking Paper
The Dynamics of Land Titling Regularization and Market DevelopmentWe study the effects of titles on parcel valuation and urban land market development (real estate transfers, rentals, and mortgages), and the dynamics of deregularization by exploiting a natural experiment in the allocation of land titles to very poo...
Deregulation Land reform Land tenureWorking Paper
Long-term Effects of Land Reform on Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from West BengalWe use data on inter-generational gains in educational attainment by some 500,000 individuals in 200 West Bengal villages to explore gender-differentiated impacts of land reform on human capital accumulation at the individual level...
Human capital Land reform Land tenureWorking Paper
Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa: Pilot Evidence from RwandaAlthough recent developments greatly increased interest in African land tenure, few models to address these issues at the required scale have been identified or evaluated...
Finance (Agriculture) Land tenure Laws and legislation (Land use)