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  1. Library Resource
    WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LAND GRABBING AND CORRUPTION IN BRAZIL?
    Reports & Research
    December, 2021
    Brazil

    Fraud and corruption are the main enabling mechanisms for land abuses in Brazil, guaranteeing impunity for land grabbers and other public and private agents involved in these schemes. This is what is evidenced in the research report, “Weak land governance, fraud and corruption: fertile ground for land grabbing,” which systematizes for the first time the relationship between these issues. Thereby, the study seeks to understand precisely why and how corruption and fraud associated with land grabbing occur.  

  2. Library Resource
    GT
    Conference Papers & Reports
    March, 2015
    South America, Brazil

    Brazil has the fifth-largest national land area in the world and this land resource represents a critical asset for the country’s urban, agricultural, and economic development, also providing essential environmental services. Nevertheless, it has a historical lack of governance over its lands, failing to provide secure land rights and to control the extensive frauds resulting in public and private land grabs. The objective of this study is to depict evidence of these land grabs and propose a typology for analyzing them.

  3. Library Resource
    GT
    Journal Articles & Books
    May, 2011
    South America, Brazil
    In this beginning of century, Brazil has, on one hand, a high economic growth, strong institutions in various areas and improvement of social situation, but, on the other hand, the rural and urban land situation is still very precarious, with elementary issues that are not resolved and that most developed countries solved them still in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
  4. Library Resource
    July, 2013
    Guyana

    Since independence in 1966,
    Guyana's economy has gone through a state control of
    major productive sectors, and financial institutions -
    including controls of prices, credit, and foreign exchange -
    to a combination of political/social unrest, with terms of
    trade deterioration, and slow economic growth. This led
    Guyana to become the fourth poorest country in the Western
    Hemisphere, despite its rich endowment in mineral resources,

  5. Library Resource
    May, 2015
    Bolivia

    The Country Opinion Survey in Bolivia
    assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better
    understanding of how stakeholders in Bolivia perceive the
    WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from
    national and local governments, multilateral/bilateral
    agencies, media, academia, the private sector, and civil
    society in Bolivia on 1) their views regarding the general
    environment in Bolivia; 2) their overall attitudes toward

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