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   Land Reform in Eastern Europe - Western CIS, Transcaucuses, Balkans, and EU Accession Countries

   Journal Articles & Books

   December, 2001

   Serbia, Slovenia, North Macedonia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Croatia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Moldova, Albania, Armenia, Poland, Germany, Georgia, Romania, Czech Republic, Europe

   Land & Investments

   farmland

   public ownership

   land use

   land markets

   private ownership

   land transfers

   land reform

   land ownership

   The former socialist countries of Eastern Europe (that is, Europe east of Germany and west of the Urals, but including all of Russia) began a transition to a market economy in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. This paper looks at one aspect of that transition: the transition from state ownership to private ownership of agricultural land and the accompanying transition to a land market for agricultural land.

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   Does Rising Landlessness Signal Success or Failure for Vietnam’s Agrarian Transition?

   June, 2012

   Vietnam

   Land & Investments

   agrarian reform

   agrarian structure

   agriculture

   farmers

   farmland

   land consolidation

   land law

   land markets

   land ownership

   land reform

   land tenure

   landlessness

   private ownership

   rural areas

   rural development

   In the wake of reforms to establish a free market in land-use rights, Vietnam is experiencing a pronounced rise in rural landlessness. To some observers this is a harmless by-product of a more efficient economy, while to others it signals the return of the pre-socialist class-structure, with the rural landless at the bottom of the economic ladder. The authors' theoretical model suggests that removing restrictions on land markets will increase landlessness among the poor, but that there will be both gainers and losers, with uncertain impacts on aggregate poverty.

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   China - Integrating Land Policy Reforms II : Strengthening Land Rights for Equitable Growth and Social Harmony

   February, 2013

   China

   Land & Investments

   agriculture

   collective ownership

   compensation

   eminent domain

   farmland

   land administration

   land markets

   land ownership

   land reform

   land registration

   land rights

   land speculation

   land tenure

   land transactions

   land transfers

   land use

   land-use planning

   landowners

   private ownership

   rural planning

   rural population

   urban areas

   This report evaluates the legal
   framework for rural land rights, the regulations of rural
   housing sites, the effects of land requisition on farmers
   who lose land, and some selected issues affecting urban land
   rights. The focus of this report is how to enhance property
   rights in a number of different contexts. The report makes a
   series of specific policy recommendations for rural
   agricultural land, rural housing land, to protect rights in
   

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   Land Rights and Economic Development : Evidence from Vietnam

   April, 2014

   Vietnam

   Urban Tenure

   Land & Investments

   land rights

   land reform

   land transfers

   land markets

   agriculture

   farmers

   farmland

   land administration

   land allocation

   land consolidation

   land law

   land management

   land registration

   land rent

   land tenure

   land use

   private ownership

   property rights

   rural development

   tenants

   urbanization

   The authors examine the impact of land
   reform in Vietnam which gives households the power to
   exchange, transfer, lease, inherit, and mortgage their
   land-use rights. The authors expect this change to increase
   the incentives as well as the ability to undertake long-term
   investments on the part of households. Their
   difference-in-differences estimation strategy takes
   advantage of the variation across provinces in the issuance
   

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   Land Fragmentation, Cropland Abandonment, and Land Market Operation in Albania

   April, 2012

   Albania

   Land & Investments

   agrarian reform

   agriculture

   decentralization

   farmers

   farmland

   land administration

   land consolidation

   land markets

   land ownership

   land reform

   land speculation

   land tenure

   land transfers

   land use

   leases

   private ownership

   property rights

   rural development

   tenants

   transaction costs

   Albania's radical farmland
   distribution is credited with averting an economic crisis
   and social unrest during the transition. But many believe it
   led to a holding structure too fragmented to be efficient,
   and that public efforts to consolidate plots are needed to
   lay the foundation for greater rural productivity. This
   paper uses farm-level data from the 2005 Albania Living
   Standards Measurement Survey to explore this quantitatively.
   

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   Land in Transition : Reform and Poverty in Rural Vietnam

   Reports & Research

   May, 2012

   Vietnam

   Urban Tenure

   Land & Investments

   agrarian reform

   agrarian structure

   agriculture

   farmland

   land consolidation

   land law

   land markets

   land ownership

   land reform

   land rights

   land tenure

   land titling

   land transfers

   land use

   landlessness

   landowners

   private ownership

   property rights

   rural areas

   rural development

   rural population

   tenant farmers

   transaction costs

   urbanization

   The policy reforms called for in the
   transition from a socialist command economy to a developing
   market economy bring both opportunities and risks to a
   country's citizens. In poor economies, the initial
   focus of reform efforts is naturally the rural sector, which
   is where one finds the bulk of the population and almost all
   the poor. Economic development will typically entail moving
   many rural households out of farming into more remunerative
   

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   Insecurity of Land Tenure, Land Law and Land Registration in Liberia

   June, 2012

   Liberia

   Urban Tenure

   Land & Investments

   compensation

   farmland

   land administration

   land distribution

   land management

   land markets

   land ownership

   land reform

   land registration

   land rights

   land tenure

   land titling

   land transactions

   land use

   landowners

   private ownership

   public ownership

   rural areas

   squatters

   urban areas

   urbanization

   To implement the vision of fostering
   economic development, social equity, and a transparent and
   effective government, the Government of Liberia has outlined
   key transitions that need to be accomplished. These include
   the development of infrastructure (roads, electricity),
   schools, job creation and transition from war, civil
   conflict and social polarization to a well functioning
   society in which economic opportunities are fostered and