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Tenurial security and agricultural investment

Part of Journal Special Issue Article Introduction to understanding agricultural development and change

Book Chapter
The construction sector in Tanzania

Part of Book Mining for Change

Working Paper
Role of the construction sector and key bottlenecks to supply response in Tanzania

The construction sector is a key enabler for social and economic development worldwide. In Tanzania, the sector growth rate is well above the general economy and has maintained positive growth in response to the country’s investments in commercial...

Journal Article
Legal Empowerment of the Poor through Property Rights Reform

Part of Journal Special Issue Legal Empowerment and Group-Based Inequality

Working Paper
Barriers or catalysts? Traditional institutions and social mobility in rural India

We examine how village-level social group dominance affects the educational and occupational mobility of minority and other social groups in rural India across multiple generations. We distinguish between upper caste and own-group dominance and...

Working Paper
Taxless fiscal states

How do modern fiscal states arise? Perhaps the most dominant explanation, based on the European experience, is that democratic institutions that limited the extractive power of states—exemplified by the 1688 Glorious Revolution in England—paved the...

Working Paper
Legal empowerment of the poor through property rights reform

Land registration and titling in Africa has been seen as a means of legal empowerment of the poor that can protect smallholders’ and pastoralists’ rights of access to land and other land-based resources. Land registration is also on the ethnojustice...

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Personal assets from a global perspective

Theme: 2004-05

The project aims to assemble data about the distribution and composition of personal assets in developing, transition, and developed countries and to study the implications of personal asset-holding for economic development. The most important asset...

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