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  1. Library Resource
    January, 2004
    South Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

    This proceedings issue from a mini conference held in November 2004 presents six papers summarising attempts to establish best practice equity-share schemes on two commercial farms in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. The main object of this participatory research was to test and refine land reform policy influencing the role of equity-share schemes as instruments of land and agrarian reform in South Africa.The papers presented were as follows:Land redistribution in Kwazulu-Natal: an analysis of Farmland transactions from 1997 until 2002 by Stuart Ferrer and Allan Semalulu.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    February, 2008
    South Africa, Brazil, Africa

    Despite programmes for rural land reform and redistribution around the world, inequitable land distribution and rural poverty remain profound in much of the rural South. Suggests a new approach to land reform and rural development. ‘Rural territorial development’ is based on and encourages shared territorial identity (distinctive productive, historical, cultural and environmental features) amongst different stakeholders and social groupings. Builds on the fact that rural people’s livelihood strategies are complex and often mostly non-agricultural in nature.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2007
    India, Southern Asia

    Recognition of the importance of institutions that provide security of property rights and relatively equal access to economic resources to a broad cross-section of society has renewed interest in the potential of asset redistribution, including land reforms. Empirical analysis of the impact of such policies is, however, scant and often contradictory. This paper uses panel household data from India, together with state-level variation in the implementation of land reform, to address some of the deficiencies of earlier studies.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    March, 2008
    Nicaragua, Latin America and the Caribbean

    This review of public expenditures on Social Protection (SP) in Nicaragua is based on the analytical framework of Social Risk Management (SRM) developed by the World Bank. The concept of managing social risk comes from the notion that certain groups in society are vulnerable to unexpected shocks which threaten their livelihood and/or survival. Social protection focuses on the poor since they are more vulnerable to the risks and normally do not have the instruments to handle these risks.

  5. Library Resource

    Implications for Poverty Reduction and Shared Prosperity

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    December, 2016
    Moldova, Europe, Central Asia

    The agricultural and food production sector plays a key role in fighting poverty and food insecurity in Moldova, but is facing critical challenges to modernize and integrate into the international market. This paper focuses on smallholder farms, which make up 95 percent of all farms, and explores their potential for growth and the poverty links. Findings reveal that structural change is slow and smallholder farm growth in Moldova is an exception, not the rule.

  6. Library Resource
    December, 2013
    Uganda

    Research has had a powerful impact on
    policy in Uganda, affecting the climate of opinion,
    improving the quality of the policy debate, and helping
    focus public policy and intervention on poverty reduction.
    Uganda s successful use of knowledge and research to help
    set public policy priorities demonstrates that even a poor
    post conflict country can, in a relatively short period of
    time, create an effective information base and feedback

  7. Library Resource
    February, 2014
    Asia, South-Eastern Asia

    The process by which different
    ecological conditions and historical trajectories interacted
    to create different social and cultural systems resulted in
    major differences in economic development performance within
    Southeast Asia. In the late 19th century, Indonesia, the
    Philippines, and Thailand commonly experienced
    vent-for-surplus development through exploitation of unused
    lands. Nevertheless, different agrarian structures were

  8. Library Resource
    July, 2015
    Asia, South-Eastern Asia

    According to Myint's "vent-for-surplus"
    theory, development of the economies of Indonesia, the
    Philippines, and Thailand from the nineteenth century on
    depended on the natural advantage of large tracts of unused
    "empty land" with low population density and abundant natural
    resources of the type typically found in Southeast Asia and
    Africa at the outset of Western colonization. When these

  9. Library Resource
    May, 2012
    Haiti

    This paper addresses labor markets in
    Haiti, including farm and nonfarm employment and income
    generation. The analyses are based on the first Living
    Conditions Survey of 7,186 households covering the whole
    country and representative at the regional level. The
    findings suggest that four key determinants of employment
    and productivity in nonfarm activities are education,
    gender, location, and migration status. This is emphasized

  10. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Pakistan

    This report shows that after a decade of
    moderate growth but little or no long term change in rural
    poverty in Pakistan, agricultural output, rural incomes,
    rural poverty and social welfare indicators all showed
    marked improvements between 2001-02 and 2004-05. However,
    longer term trends suggest there is little reason for
    complacency. The agricultural GDP per capita growth rate
    (1999- 2000 to 2004-05) was only 0.3 percent per year; rural

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