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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2007
    Ethiopia, Africa

    Although a large theoretical literature discusses the possible inefficiency of sharecropping contracts, the empirical evidence on this phenomenon has been ambiguous at best. Household-level fixed-effect estimates from about 8,500 plots operated by households that own and sharecrop land in the Ethiopian highlands provide support for the hypothesis of Marshallian inefficiency. At the same time, a factor adjustment model suggests that the extent to which rental markets allow households to attain their desired operational holding size is extremely limited.

  2. Library Resource

    Reforming Land Administration and Management for Equitable Growth and Social Cohesion

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    March, 2010
    Madagascar, Africa

    A well-functioning land administration and management system is crucial for Madagascar's economic and social future. Land is implicated in Madagascar's ongoing economic development and social transformation in many important ways, as key a factor in its quest for economic growth, urbanization, transparent decision-making on land-related foreign investments, environment protection, vibrant and sustainable rural communities, political stability, and social cohesion.

  3. Library Resource
    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.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    December, 2011
    Tanzania, Africa

    Tanzania's land, local government and forest laws mean that rural communities have well defined rights to own, manage and benefit from forest and woodland resources within their local areas through the establishment of village forests. This approach, known by practitioners as Community Based Forest Management (CBFM) results in the legal establishment of village land forest reserves, community forest reserves or private forests. By 2008, 1,460 villages on mainland Tanzania1 were involved in establishing or managing village forests covering a total of over 2.345 million hectares.

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    Lessons Learned from the Experience in Lagos and Other Mega-Cities

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    June, 2015
    Africa, Nigeria

    This report aims to extract lessons on slum upgrading and involuntary resettlement policies and practices learned from the process of addressing the Badia East case, which involved complex interactions between affected people, NGOs, the Bank and Lagos State Government.

  6. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

    This article addresses the problems of
    governance in municipalities in Africa. The concern has been
    to adapt traditional systems of governance to the needs of
    modern urban management. This article investigates the need
    for a new analysis of the twin problems of urban land and
    urban management in sub-Saharan Africa. This need is based
    on the apparent paradox between the dynamic, city-creating
    activities of civil societies in all of these countries, and

  7. 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

  8. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Africa, Western Africa

    This has to be accomplished against a
    background of high illiteracy rates, rapidly growing
    populations, low and erratic rainfall, inherently infertile
    soils, and development strategies which have had a strong
    urban bias. Under such conditions, traditional production
    systems are unable to sustain the population. Without
    significant change, land degradation will accelerate and the
    natural resource base on which agricultural production

  9. Library Resource
    April, 2014
    Kenya

    A comprehensive investigative study was
    implemented in 2002, on the status, and development of urban
    mobility in three Sub-Saharan African cities - Addis Ababa,
    Ethiopia; Nairobi, Kenya; and, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. Its
    purpose was to gather information in terms of size, regional
    spread, and availability data, that would allow
    identification of issues affecting urban mobility in the
    related cities, and prepare action plans, that would lead to

  10. Library Resource
    September, 2013
    Madagascar

    This review aims to provide the
    Government of Madagascar with a situation assessment and
    insights and guidance on how to position the rural and
    environment sector as an engine for inclusive and
    sustainable economic growth. The review has cast the
    analytical net quite widely with the aim to come up with a
    comprehensive overview of the sector. In view of the
    intimate linkages between rural development and the

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