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From the Editor's desk (October 2011)
Tony Addison As autumn moves into winter in Helsinki, it is time to bring you the October edition of UNU-WIDER’s newsletter, WIDER Angle...
Consumption Democracy DistributionWorking Paper
The Efficiency of States and Cities: Is There a Case for Public Land Leasing and Sales to Finance India’s Cities?In this study an attempt has been made to assess the potential of land as a municipal financing tool in four Indian cities, to enable better public service delivery and attainment of the MDGs...
Land tenure Public investments Public utilitiesWorking Paper
Poverty and Land Distribution: Evidence from a Natural ExperimentWhile land reforms have long been motivated as a potential policy lever of rural growth and development, there is remarkably little evidence of the direct impacts of such reforms...
Economic development Land reform Land tenureWorking Paper
Reputation, Policy Risk, and Land Use: A Study of China’s ‘Grain for Green’ ProgrammeSince 1999, China has spent RMB 50 billion (about US$7 billion) to implement the ‘Grain for Green’ programme, the largest land retirement programme in the developing world...
Conservation of natural resources Farm produce Forests and forestryWorking Paper
Migration and Inheritance Practices in the Bolivian AltiplanoMost theoretical approaches to inheritance assume that parents are the key actors of bequest decisions. However, in a context of important migration, children may play an active role in the inheritance process...
Inheritance and succession Land tenure Land useWorking Paper
Political Connections and Investment in Rural VietnamThis paper uses household panel data from rural Vietnam to explore the effects of having a relative in a position of political or bureaucratic power on farmers’ agricultural investment decisions...
Credit Informal sector InvestmentsWorking Paper
Can a Populist Political Party Bear the Risk of Granting Complete Property Rights?: Electoral outcomes of Mexico’s second land reformThe Mexican land reform, one of the most sweeping in the world, proceeded in two steps: it granted peasants highly incomplete property rights on more than half of the Mexican territory starting in 1914, creating strong economic and political dependen...
Land tenure Political science VotingWorking Paper
Land Acquisition for Industrialization and Compensation of Displaced FarmersThis paper addresses the question of how farmers displaced by acquisition of agricultural land for the purpose of industrialization ought to be compensated...
Compensation management Industrialization Land tenureWorking Paper
Evolution of Land Distribution in West Bengal 1967-2004: Role of Land ReformThis paper uses data from a household survey to estimate changes in land distribution in rural West Bengal between 1967-2004 and decompose these into contributions of different factors...
Equality and inequality Household survey Land reformJournal Article
The Forgotten Property Rights: Evidence on Land Use Rights in VietnamStudies of land property rights usually focus on tenure security and transfer rights. Rights to determine how to use the land are regularly ignored. However, user rights are often limited...
Credit Informal sector InvestmentsWorking Paper
Transformation of the Family under Rising Land Pressure: A Theoretical EssayIf we understand well the individualization of land tenure rules under conditions of growing land scarcity and increased market integration, much less is known about the mode of evolution of the farm-cum-family units possessing the land...
Agriculture Families Land reformWorking Paper
Trees, Tenure and Conflict: Rubber in Colonial BeninTree crops have changed land tenure in Africa. Farmers have acquired more permanent, alienable rights, but have also faced disputes with competing claimants and the state...
Agricultural industries Land reform Land tenureWorking Paper
Women and Landed Property in Urban India: Negotiating Closed Doors and Windows of OpportunityThis paper examines land tenure in informal urban settlements in India from a gender perspective through field research conducted in Ahmedabad in collaboration with the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)...
Government spending policy Land tenure Urban planningJournal Article
Changing Land Tenure Arrangements and Access to Primary Assets under Globalization: A Case Study of Two Villages in Anglophone CameroonPart of Journal Special Issue Globalization-Poverty Channels and Case Studies from Sub-Saharan Africa
Globalization Land tenure Social conflictBook Chapter
The Distribution of Household Wealth in IndiaFrom the book: Personal Wealth from a Global Perspective
Equality and inequality Households Land tenureBook Chapter
Land Reform and Land Holdings in BrazilFrom the book: Personal Wealth from a Global Perspective
Equality and inequality Land reform Land tenure