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Deriving countermeasures to the use of housing, land and property rights as a war-financing commodity

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2022
Africa, Americas, Eastern Asia, Western Asia, Europe, Global
Land & Corruption
Land Conflicts
Land in post-conflict settings
Urban Tenure
land administration
land documentation
land records
title deeds
land titling
corruption
conflicts
Efforts to thwart the trafficking of conflict commodities to finance wars constitute an ongoing endeavour. As specific approaches become effective for certain commodities, belligerent actors pursue new forms of exploitation. The trafficking of housing, land and property (HLP) rights in war zones has now reached a pervasiveness, lucrativeness and severity to warrant significant attention on the derivation of countermeasures.
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Housing, land and property rights as war financing commodities: A typology with lessons from Darfur, Colombia and Syria

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2022
Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, Western Asia, Europe, Oceania, Global
Land & Corruption
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land in post-conflict settings
Urban Tenure
land documentation
land records
land registration
deed registration
land governance
post-conflict settings
expropriation
land law
conflicts
land acquisitions
land ownership
The ongoing use of landscape-based conflict commodities — diamonds and other minerals, timber, wildlife, etc. — to finance wars continues to evolve. The success with which such commodities can be transacted to support militaries, militias and insurgencies has led belligerents to innovate with additional commodities. Housing, land and property (HLP) rights within war zones have belatedly joined the list of conflict commodities that are subject to transaction, and to such an extent as to warrant significant concern.
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The effects of land registration on financial development and economic growth - a theoretical and conceptual framework

Reports & Research
July, 2016
Norway, Thailand, United States of America
development
land
land registration
The author develops a theoretical framework to guide empirical analysis of how land registration affects financial development and economic growth. Most conceptual approaches investigate the effects of land registration on only one sector, nut land registration is commonly observed to affect not only other sectors but the economy as a whole. The author builds on the well-tested link between secure land ownership and farm productivity, adding to the framework theory about positive information and transaction costs.
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Is there a Role for Title Insurance in Markets with Land Registration?

Reports & Research
March, 2016
United States of America, Europe
land
land registration
This work first describes the structure of the main institutional arrangements devised for reducing transaction costs related to the risk of eviction when selling land or using it as collateralóprivate contracting, recording of documents and registration of rights. It then analyses the rationale for the use of title insurance in the USA, and the circumstance under which there might arise a demand for this kind of insurance in markets with land registration, as are those in Europe. Land Titles; Title Insurance; Transaction Costs
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Spatial aspect of fit-for-purpose land administration for emerging land administration systems: a conceptual framework for evaluation approach

Journal Articles & Books
Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2021
Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania, Antarctica
land administration
land records
spatial source
land information systems
cadastres
land registration
spatial units
land governance
land policies
land rights
Fit-for-purpose land administration (FFPLA) concept is widely applied in the emerging land administration systems (LASs). This paper aims to contribute to the development of evaluation of the spatial aspect of FFPLA. A review of evaluation models for LASs is made in relation with rationale of FFPLA to identify gaps related to evaluation of a FFPLA and to build up milestones and measurement criteria.
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Hybrid Approaches for Smart Contracts in Land Administration: Lessons from Three Blockchain Proofs-of-Concept

Volume 10 Issue 2

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2021
Australia, Canada, British Indian Ocean Territory, Norway, Sweden
cadastres
land administration
land registration
The emergence of “blockchain” technology as an alternative data management technique has spawned a myriad of conceptual and logical design work across multiple industries and sectors. It is also argued to enable operationalisation of the earlier “smart contract” concept. The domain of land administration has actively investigated these opportunities, albeit also largely at the conceptual level, and usually with a whole-of-sector or “big bang” industry transformation perspective.
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Experiences and Development Impacts of Securing Land Rights at Scale in Developing Countries: Case Studies of China and Vietnam

Volume 10 Issue 2

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2021
Central African Republic, China, Ethiopia, Russia, Rwanda, United States of America, Vietnam, Asia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
development
land registration
land rights
scale
This paper reviews experiences and development impacts of a selected number of developing countries in Asia and Africa that have used emerging land registration approaches to rapidly secure land rights at scale. Rapid and scalable registration is essential to eliminate a major backlog of the world’s unregistered land, which stands at about 70 percent. The objective of the review, based on secondary data, is to draw lessons that can help accelerate land registration across many countries.
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Secure Land Tenure Rights for All: Key Condition for Sustainable Development

Successful Approaches and Their Impacts

Policy Papers & Briefs
July, 2019
Africa, Ethiopia, Uganda, Namibia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Brazil, Peru, Asia, Cambodia, Laos, Eastern Europe, Global
cadastral administration
community land rights
customary tenure
displacement
eviction
gender equity in access to land
informal settlements
land registration
land rights
land tenure systems
private ownership
public ownership
tenure security
tenure regularization
The aim of this policy paper is to present successful approaches to secure land tenure rights in rural and urban areas. To support future programmatic decisions by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), this paper focusses especially on impacts and good practices. It discusses examples from the German technical cooperation but also includes good practices and impacts achieved by other development partners.
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The Impact of Globalization on Pre-Industrial, Technologically Quiescent Economies: Real Wages, Relative Factor Prices and Commodity Price Convergence in the Third World Before 1940

January, 1999
Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean
land tenure
poverty
land registration
Paper uses a new pre-1940 Third World data base documenting real wages and relative factor prices to explore their determinants. There are three possibilities: external price shocks, factor endowment changes, and technological change. As the paper's title suggests, technological change is an unlikely explanation. The paper lays out an explicit econometric agenda for the future, although more casual empiricism suggests that external price shocks were doing most of the work, and declining-transport-cost-induced commodity price convergence in particular.
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Entering the 21st Century: World Development Report 1999/2000

January, 1999
Europe, Western Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Northern Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
development
climate change
land registration
poverty
land tenure
Localization—the growing economic and political power of cities, provinces, and other sub-national entities—will be one of the most important new trends in the 21st century. Together with accelerating globalization of the world economy, localization could revolutionize prospects for human development or it could lead to chaos and increased human suffering.Improved communications, transportation and falling trade barriers are not only making the world smaller they are also fueling the desire and providing the means for local communities to shape their own future.