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Determinants of Agricultural Investment: An Application to Rural China

Reports & Research
January, 2014
Australia, China, Russia, United States of America
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land tenure
land tenure
land tenure systems
China, a country developing at unprecedented levels, has experienced drastic changes throughout its recent economic history. Of primary interest is the continuing development and improvement of the rural agricultural sector, with even the slightest changes in this sector having dramatic ripple effects on rural economies. Estimates of rural households involved in agricultural production range from 65 to 70 percent (de Brauw & Rozelle, 2008; Rozelle, Taylor, & de Brauw, 1999).
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Oligarchs, megafarms and land reserves: understanding land grabbing in Russia

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2013
Russia
Land Conflicts
dispossession
land grabbing
land reform
textabstractThis paper seeks to unravel the political economy of large-scale land acquisitions in
post-Soviet Russia. Russia falls neither in the normal category of ‘investor’ countries,
nor in the category of ‘target’ countries. Russia has large ‘land reserves’, since in the
1990s much fertile land was abandoned. We analyse how particular Russia is with
regards to the common argument in favour of land acquisitions, namely that land is
available, unused or even unpopulated. With rapid economic growth, capital of
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Land reform and land fragmentation in Central and Eastern Europe

Peer-reviewed publication
August, 2013
Eastern Europe, Western Europe
Land & Food Security
land administration
sustainable development
land reform
agriculture
land consolidation
land ownership
smallholders
It has often been stated that land fragmentation and farm structures characterized by small agricultural holdings and farms divided in a large number of parcels have been the side-effect of land reform in Central and Eastern Europe. This article reports the findings of a study of land reform in 25 countries in the region from 1989 and onwards and provides an overview of applied land reform approaches. With a basis in theory on land fragmentation, the linkage between land reform approaches and land fragmentation is explored.
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Taking the law to the people : mobilizing community ownership for legal reed harvesting in Ukraine : experiences with Ukrainian legislation and stakeholder consultations for commercial reed harvesting in rural communities

Reports & Research
December, 2013
Ukraine, Netherlands
land ownership
This report is an account of experiences of a Ukraine based company, Phytofuels Investments, operating in the framework of the Pellets for Power project. As one of five project partners, Phytofuels’ tasks included the development of sustainable reed production methods. Two aspects of this endeavor are zoomed in on in this report: reed legislation and engagement with authorities issuing permits on the one hand and engagements with local reed owning communities on the other. Both aspects are strongly interlinked and cover two sets of requirements in the NTA 8080, i.e.
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Property rights and macroeconomic performance in Central and Eastern European EU member states

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2013
Estonia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Latvia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Eastern Europe, Europe
land policies
property rights
land economics
research
Using the database of eight Central and Eastern European transition economies compiled from the World Bank collection of World Development Indicators, the authors examine the relationship between high contract-intensive money as an indicator of contractual and property rights (or a general measure of the quality of governance and institutions) and performance of several macroeconomic indicators (GDP growth, FDI to GDP ratio, employment rate etc.) over the period from 1990 to 2011. The Pearson's correlation coefficients were used to determine the strength of the relationships.
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Land reform in Central and Eastern Europe after 1989 and its outcome in the form of farm structures and land fragmentation

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2013
Serbia, Slovenia, North Macedonia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Armenia, Croatia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Moldova, Albania, Montenegro, Poland, Germany, Georgia, Romania, Czech Republic, Eastern Europe
private ownership
land governance
property rights
land ownership
land tenure
The countries in Central and Eastern Europe began a remarkable transition from a centrally-planned economy towards a market economy in 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell and the Iron Curtain lifted. Land reforms with the objective to privatize state-owned agricultural land, managed by large-scale collective and state farms, were high on the political agenda in most countries of the region at the beginning of the transition. More than 20 years later the stage of implementation of land reform varies.
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Cooperative development in Central Asia

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2013
Turkmenistan, Switzerland, Spain, Israel, Turkey, Sweden, Ukraine, Denmark, Ireland, Canada, Moldova, Japan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Netherlands, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Armenia, Asia
land
land tenure
This paper was prepared within the “Cooperatives and their alternatives” component of the Agrarian Structures Initiative (ASI) which a regional program of FAO in Europe and Central Asia. The purpose of this paper is to introduce Central Asian policy makers to the Western paradigm of service cooperative and to explore the constraints – both physical and ideological – to faster development and acceptance of cooperatives. We also discuss the need for a complete reorientation of the government’s approach to cooperative development.
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Russia : Financial Sector Assessment

July, 2013
Russia
assessment
property
This Financial Sector Assessment (FSA)
is a summary of some of the findings of the Financial Sector
Assessment Program (FSAP) report for the Russian Federation,
which was prepared jointly by the International Monetary
Fund (IMF) and the Bank in close cooperation with the
Russian authorities. Given the small size of the financial
sector, the effects of a potential financial sector distress
on the macro-economy would be relatively small. However,
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The Development of Property Taxation in Economies in Transition : Case Studies from Central and Eastern Europe

June, 2013
Eastern Europe, Europe
Urban Tenure
cadastres
decentralization
land economics
land use
property rights
sustainable development
urban areas
urbanization
The transition economies of Central and
Eastern Europe, through the reform process of
decentralization, are now seeking the devolution of fiscal
powers, and responsibilities from central, to local
governments, within financially sustainable environments. To
this end, a system of local budgets, and taxes needs to be
devised, over which local governments may have control.
Thus, this report focuses on the tax on immovable real
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Ukraine - Building Foundations for Sustainable Growth : A Country Economic Memorandum

July, 2013
Ukraine
Land & Corruption
agriculture
corruption
land markets
mining
property rights
Favorable economic conditions offer a
window of opportunity for the Ukrainian government External
factors served as a catalyst for the economic turnaround but
policies and reforms have also played a critical role.
Nevertheless, the positive trends will weaken without vision
at the top level of government. An "insider
economy" threatens to become a primary obstacle to
Ukraine's future development and also weakens the link