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  1. 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.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    May, 2014
    Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

    This paper focuses on three interrelated questions on urbanization and the geography of development. First, although we herald cities with their industrial bases as "engines of growth," does industrialization in fact drive urbanization? While such relationships appear in the data, the process is not straightforward. Among developing countries, changes in income or industrialization correlate only weakly with changes in urbanization. This suggests that policy and institutional factors may also influence the urbanization process.

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    March, 2017
    Kenya

    Kenya’s Vision 2030 aims at transforming the country into a newly industrialized middle income country


    and infrastructural development is high on the agenda to achieve this. Competing land uses and existing


    interests in land make the use of eminent domain by government in acquiring land inevitable. However


    most of the land earmarked for compulsory acquisition comprises of un- registered land whose interests


  4. Library Resource
    Land Conflicts in Kenya: Causes, Impacts, and Resolutions cover image
    Journal Articles & Books
    Reports & Research
    December, 2005
    Africa, Kenya

    Because of changes in some underlying factors, land is increasingly becoming a source of conflicts in Africa. We estimate the determinants of land conflicts and their impacts on input application in Kenya by using a recent survey of 899 rural households. We find that widows are about 13 percent more likely to experience pending land conflicts when their parcels are registered under the names of their deceased husbands than when titles are registered under their names.

  5. 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

  6. Library Resource
    September, 2013
    Kenya

    This Financial Sector Assessment (FSA)
    is based on the work of the joint International Monetary
    Fund (IMF)- World Bank missions that visited Kenya from July
    15 to July 24,2003, and from September 30 to October 15,
    2003, in the context of the Financial Sector Assessment
    Program (FSAP). The principal objective of the missions was
    to assist the Kenyan authorities in assessing the
    development needs and opportunities for the financial sector

  7. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Uganda

    This study was conducted with the main objective of determining the linkages between poverty and land management in Uganda. The study used the 2002/03 Uganda National Household Survey in eight districts representing six major agro-ecological zones and farming systems. Farmers in these districts deplete an average of 179 kg/ha of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, which is about 1.2 percent of the nutrient stock stored in the topsoil.

  8. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Ethiopia

    Ethiopia in the decade up to 2005 has
    been characterized by robust growth rates of the urban
    economy, where a still limited share of the population
    lives. The urban economy has been estimated to contribute at
    least half of gross domestic product (GDP) (53 percent in
    2002/03) and to explain a significant part of its growth.
    Only an estimated 12.6 percent of the poor live in urban
    areas and the overwhelming concentration of poverty in rural

  9. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Ethiopia

    This paper provides evidence from one of
    the poorest countries of the world that the property rights
    matter for efficiency, investment, and growth. With all land
    state-owned, the threat of land redistribution never appears
    far off the agenda. Land rental and leasing have been made
    legal, but transfer rights remain restricted and the
    perception of continuing tenure insecurity remains quite
    strong. Using a unique panel data set, this study

  10. Library Resource
    March, 2013
    Uganda

    At an average above 6.0 percent per year
    over the past two decades, Uganda' s growth rate was
    impressive by all standards. In parallel, poverty declined
    significantly, not only in urban areas, but also to some
    extent within the rural areas. This combination was possible
    because the key drivers of growth were labor-intensive
    services sectors, some of which are agriculture based. In
    fact, Uganda's growth process has reduced overall

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