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From the Editor's Desk (December 2011)
Tony Addison With the end of the year fast approaching, we bring you the last Angle of 2011. Here in Helsinki, the shortest day of the year is nearly...
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WIDER Symposium on Adaptive Efficiency and Evolving Diversity of Enterprise Ownership and GovernanceA property rights regime covers rights to use, lease, donate, bequest, and sell assets or collect the incomes generated by assets. A clear and transparent property rights regime facilitates investment and economic growth. While private property is...
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Property Rights and ProductivityThis paper explores the effect of land titling on agricultural productivity in Vietnam and the productivity effects of single versus joint titling for husband and wife. Using a plot-fixed-effects approach our results show that obtaining a land title...
Working Paper
Privatization, Asset Distribution and Equity in Transitional EconomiesThe economies in transition are experiencing unique changes in the distribution of assets. The growth in the share of private ownership is occurring through the privatization of state-owned assets and through the birth of private firms. The changes...
Journal Article
The Forgotten Property RightsStudies 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. Relying on a unique Vietnamese panel data set at both...
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Globalization, Crop Choice and Property Rights in Rural Peru, 1994-2004This paper describes the results of initial work analysing a panel of rural households in Peru between 1994 and 2004 to determine household responses to changes in relative prices of traditional versus export-oriented products. Our principal interest...
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Zambian Policy-Making and the Donor Community in the 1990sThe move towards multiparty democracy in Zambia in the early 1990s was heralded as the beginning of a new era of more pluralist politics in Africa. The new government’s willingness to adopt economic reforms and policies, hitherto resisted, was also...
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La Relación entre las Instituciones y el Desarrollo EconómicoThis paper discusses how the theory on the role of institutions in development can be improved, by critically examining the current orthodox discourse on institutions. To understand the relationship between institutions and economic development, it...
Book Chapter
Structural and Institutional Factors in the Transition to the Market EconomyPart of Book Transition and Institutions
Working Paper
Land issues in Vietnam 2006–14This paper uses five waves of the Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey (VARHS) to analyse land issues in Vietnam from a number of different angles. The VARHS provides panel data at plot as well as household level and I use this rich data set...
Working 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. This was a project for which there was clear national demand, as evidenced by the fact that the Cambodian...
Book
The Economics of Transnational CommonsTransnational commons, cross-border areas without well-defined property rights, have long been ignored in 'official' development economics. This volume redresses the balance by adopting an environmental approach which stresses the importance of...
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Why Are the Elite in China Motivated and Able to Promote Growth?Part of Book The Role of Elites in Economic Development
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Cultural Diversity in the Global EcumenePart of Book The Economics of Transnational Commons
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Cultural Beliefs as a Common Resource in an Integrating WorldPart of Book The Economics of Transnational Commons
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Implications of a World Economy for Environmental Policy and LawPart of Book The Economics of Transnational Commons
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Protecting the Transnational CommonsPart of Book The Economics of Transnational Commons
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The International Protection of the EnvironmentPart of Book The Economics of Transnational Commons
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How Should International Greenhouse Gas Agreements Be Designed?Part of Book The Economics of Transnational Commons
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Population Growth, Physical Resources, and Human Resources in Sub-Saharan AfricaPart of Book The Economics of Transnational Commons
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The Interdependence between Environment and DevelopmentPart of Book The Economics of Transnational Commons
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Game-Theorisitic Models of BargainingPart of Book The Economics of Transnational Commons
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Management of Wildlife and Habitat in Developing CountriesPart of Book The Environment and Emerging Development Issues
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The Legacy Effect of Squatter Settlements on Urban RedevelopmentThe paper presents a theoretical model that seeks to answer the question of why former squatter settlements tend to upgrade/redevelop at a slower pace than otherwise similar settlements originating in the formal sector. We argue that squatter...
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Formal Bureaucracy and the Emergent Forms of the Informal EconomyThe following essay has three parts. The first is a story about fluctuations in the balance of the relationship between impersonal and personal principles of social organization. This draws heavily on Max Weber’s interpretation of western history...
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