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    The 'tandpayn' that won't go away

    Conference Papers & Reports
    June, 2010
    South Africa

    This document, written by Josette Cole of the Mandlovu Development Trust, explores the intended and unintended consequences of home ownership for poor citizens living in formal settlements in post-apartheid South Africa. It focuses on New Crossroads in Cape Town, a relatively small, urban community of 20 000 people.

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    A review of five South African case studies

    Conference Papers & Reports
    April, 2010
    South Africa

    Recognising that the Managed Land Settlement (MLS) approach is not new to the South African housing and service delivery environment, the purpose of this report is to explore the lessons that can be learnt from programmes and projects which have adopted an MLS-like approach to greenfields development. The report contains five case studies from across South Africa, focusing on programmes that have been successfully implemented over the past 15 years. With funding from Urban LandMark, the report was commissioned by

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    Training Resources & Tools
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2012
    Uganda, Africa

    Uganda has started its journey into urbanization and economic development. The pace of urbanization is picking up currently at 4.5 percent per year, and likely to accelerate with rising incomes. The economic benefits from urban growth will come from exploiting economies of scale and agglomeration and by increasing fluidity in factor markets that enable substitution between land and non land inputs.

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    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    December, 2010
    Indonesia, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    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.

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2012
    South Africa, Southern Africa

    To redress past racial discrepancies in ownership and tenure, the ANC government of South Africa initiated programmes to make land accessible to the previously disadvantaged. A key component of the national land reform programme was the provision of commonage lands to urban municipalities for use by the urban poor. However, there has been no assessment of the contribution that urban commonage makes to previously disadvantaged households.

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2008
    China, India

    The early development strategies of both China and India were urban- and industry-focused, discounting the importance of rural development. Despite sweeping reforms in both countries, the urban bias and subsequent spatial disparities still exist today. In order to reduce poverty and increase growth, developing countries need to correct these spatial disparities through a set of policies that take advantage of the synergies and linkages between rural and urban areas.

  7. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Eswatini

    Unplanned and unregulated urban
    development is not unique to Swaziland, but addressing the
    issue through direct consultations with beneficiaries is an
    important improvement toward resolving this persistent
    problem. The Swaziland Urban Development Project includes
    standard infrastructure work, such as increasing urban
    roads, rehabilitating and expanding water and sewage
    services, and developing a solid waste facility However, in

  8. Library Resource
    August, 2013
    Armenia

    The report updates the poverty situation
    in Armenia, largely based on the Integrated Living
    Conditions Survey conducted during 1998-99, and provides as
    well, the foundation for the preparation of the Poverty
    Reduction Strategy. The poverty profile identifies a
    widespread, and still deep poverty incidence, but while this
    poverty seems persistent, its depth and severity may be
    decreasing, and extreme poverty subsiding. Notwithstanding

  9. Library Resource
    August, 2013
    Brazil

    The first central message of this report
    is that Brazil has over the last years achieved great
    progress in its social policies and indicators. The second
    central message is that poverty remains unacceptably high
    for a country with Brazil's average income levels. The
    worst remaining income poverty is mostly concentrated in the
    Northeast region, and in the smaller urban and rural areas.
    The third central message is that, with decisive action,

  10. Library Resource
    August, 2013
    Brazil

    Although the State of Ceara, in Brazil,
    is a model of good economic, and fiscal performance given
    its poverty status, recent analysis show poverty remains
    severe, in spite of significant reductions over the last
    decade. The combination of good governance, and sound fiscal
    management, industrial promotion, and public investments
    have been successful, but the report questions whether
    different policies, could have led to higher growth, and

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