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Untying the Land Knot : Making Equitable, Efficient, and Sustainable Use of Industrial and Commercial Land

Abril, 2013

A decade ago in Mozambique, a stakeholder workshop where the need to improve access to industrial and commercial land as a means to encourage investment was a topic of discussion, a government official came up to. In order to create new jobs, generate more income, and modernize the economy, many countries see an urgent need to encourage industrial and commercial investment, both domestic and foreign. However, investment in many sectors cannot take place unless land, along with other basic factors of production, is available.

Movimiento Regional por la Tierra suma fuerzas

Policy Papers & Briefs
Julio, 2014
América del Sur

 
El Movimiento Regional por la Tierra (www.porlatierra.org) comenzó a articularse y expandirse. El presente artículo describe los primeros pasos y productos de esa acción. La autora nos pone en contexto los propósitos, protagonistas y alcances del Movimiento y comparte los resultados de 16 estudios de caso realizados, hasta el momento, en Colombia, Brasil, Paraguay, Ecuador y Bolivia.
 

Non-Citizens and Land Tenure in Kenya: Land Acquisition for Investment in a New Constitutional Era

Journal Articles & Books
Reports & Research
Junio, 2012
Kenya

The acquisition of land by foreigners in developing countries has emerged as a key mechanism for foreign direct investment (FDI). FDI is defined by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) as the category of international investment that reflects the objective of a resident entity in one economy to obtain a lasting interest in an enterprise resident in another economy.

The Implementation of Industrial Parks : Some Lessons Learned in India

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
Marzo, 2014
India
Asia meridional

Industrial parks are as popular as they are controversial, in India and globally. At their best they align infrastructure provision and agglomeration economies to jolt industrial growth. More often, they generate negative spill-overs, provide handouts, sit empty, or simply do not get built. This paper disaggregates how parks are built and how they fail. It contextualizes parks in India, followed by a thick case study of an innovative scheme that appears to buck the trend. This performance is then explained by the way in which the scheme's design and action fit India's political economy.

Converting Land into Affordable Housing Floor Space

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
Noviembre, 2013

Cities emerge from the spatial concentration of people and economic activities. But spatial concentration is not enough; the economic viability of cities depends on people, ideas, and goods to move rapidly across the urban area. This constant movement within dense cities creates wealth but also various degrees of unpleasantness and misery that economists call negative externalities, such as congestion, pollution, and environmental degradation.

The Great Migration : Urban Aspirations

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
Mayo, 2014

The great 21st-century migration into cities will present both a great challenge for humanity and a significant opportunity for global economic growth. This paper describes the diverse patterns that define this metropolitan migration. It then lays out a framework for understanding the costs and benefits of new arrivals through migration's externalities and the challenges and policy tradeoffs that confront city stakeholders.

Wan Sip, Plante Kapten

Reports & Research
Policy Papers & Briefs
Mayo, 2012
Vanuatu
Asia oriental
Oceanía

The body of this report consists of five sections. Section one is an introduction to the JBE program and the context for the lease research on Tanna. Section two provides a profile of some of the relevant historical and economic features of the island and aspects related to the structure of governance and civil society organization. This is followed in section three by a summary of key findings regarding the 64 leases studied on Tanna.

Revising the Land Law to Enable Sustainable Development in Vietnam

Training Resources & Tools
Policy Papers & Briefs
Septiembre, 2012
Viet Nam
Asia oriental
Oceanía

Vietnam's rapid and sustained economic growth and poverty reduction in the last two decades benefitted from the policy and legal reforms embodied in the Land Laws of 1987, 1993 and 2003 and subsequent related legal acts. This note outlines reforms related to four main themes. The first relates to the needed reform for agriculture land use to create opportunity to enhance effectiveness of land use as well as to secure farmers' rights in land use. Prolonging the duration of agricultural land tenure would give land users greater incentives to invest and care for the land.

Unlocking the Public-Private Partnerships Deadlock in Indonesia

Reports & Research
Training Resources & Tools
Marzo, 2011
Indonesia
Asia oriental
Oceanía

The challenges faced by Indonesia in creating a robust Public-Private Partnership (PPP) program are similar to those faced by many other middle-income countries. This paper provides a gap analysis for Indonesia's PPP framework based on lessons learned and good practice from countries with successful PPP programs. It identifies, in particular, the need for the government to: select good projects for PPP, rather than only complex ones that are less likely to attract private partners.

Study on Gender Impacts of Land Titling in Post-Tsunami Aceh, Indonesia

Reports & Research
Training Resources & Tools
Diciembre, 2010
Indonesia
Asia oriental
Oceanía

The tsunami that originated from the Indian Ocean in 2004 wreaked massive destruction, killing more than 130,000 people and displacing half a million individuals in Aceh, Indonesia. More than 800 kilometers of coastline was affected, and close to 53,795 land parcels were destroyed. The land administration system sustained significant damage because documentation of land ownership was washed away along with people's houses and other possessions in the affected communities. Physical boundary markers, including trees and fences, also disappeared.

Wan Lis, Fulap Stori

Reports & Research
Training Resources & Tools
Septiembre, 2010
Vanuatu
Asia oriental
Oceanía

This study of 23 leases over land on the island of Epi is the first of the Jastis Blong Evriwan (JBE) research activities to examine land and natural resource management (L&NRM) and access to justice on particular Vanuatu islands. The research will be repeated on the island of Tanna. To inform the broader context of land leasing in Vanuatu, JBE, in collaboration with the government of Vanuatu, has begun collecting and analyzing government land-leasing data.