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  1. Library Resource
    Realizing women’s land rights in Africa and Beyond

    A Webinar Report

    Reports & Research
    April, 2019
    Africa, Kenya, Mozambique, Senegal, India

    In October 2016, women farmers from 22 countries across Africa climbed the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro to claim women’s rights for access to and control over land and natural resources. This event coincided with the launch of a campaign of the African Land Policy Centre (ALPC) to reach the target of having 30 percent of all registered land in the name of women by 2025 and to embed women’s land rights into the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    August, 2007
    India, Southern Asia

    Recognition of the potentially deleterious implications of inequality in opportunity originating in a skewed asset distribution has spawned considerable interest in land reforms. However, little attention has been devoted to fact that, in the longer term, the measures used to implement land reforms could negatively affect productivity. Use of state level data on rental restrictions, together with a nationally representative survey from India, suggests that, contrary to original intentions, rental restrictions negatively affect productivity and equity.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2007
    India, Southern Asia

    Recognition of the importance of institutions that provide security of property rights and relatively equal access to economic resources to a broad cross-section of society has renewed interest in the potential of asset redistribution, including land reforms. Empirical analysis of the impact of such policies is, however, scant and often contradictory. This paper uses panel household data from India, together with state-level variation in the implementation of land reform, to address some of the deficiencies of earlier studies.

  4. Library Resource
    June, 2013
    India

    Decentralized forest management is an
    important policy issue in India and elsewhere. Yet there are
    few careful studies of the impacts of community forestry.
    The authors try to fill this gap by analyzing National
    Sample Survey data from 524 villages in five states in
    India. Their analysis seeks to answer two key questions: (1)
    Who participates in community forestry and what are the
    determinants of participation? (2) What is the impact of

  5. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    India

    This paper examines whether and to what
    extent amendments in inheritance legislation impact
    women's physical and human capital investments, using
    disaggregated household level data from India. The authors
    use inheritance patterns over three generations of
    individuals to assess the impact of changes in the Hindu
    Succession Act that grant daughters equal coparcenary birth
    rights in joint family property that were denied to

  6. Library Resource
    February, 2013
    India

    In 2010, Uttarakhand entered the second
    decade of its existence as a separate State. During the
    first decade, average individual incomes rose by eight ranks
    in relation to the other States in India. Although these
    incomes are still below the median for India, they are
    growing significantly faster, which is leading to rapid
    convergence with the richer States. Looking ahead, the State
    can build upon its existing growth momentum, the economic

  7. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    India

    In India, as in many developing
    countries, land continues to have enormous economic, social,
    and symbolic relevance. How access to land can be obtained,
    and how ownership of land can be documented, are questions
    essential to the livelihoods of the large majority of the
    poor, especially in rural and tribal areas. Answers to these
    questions will determine to what extent India's
    increasingly scarce natural resources are managed. Moreover,

  8. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    India

    India's Uttar Pradesh Sodic Lands
    Reclamation Project has two objectives. First, it seeks to
    reverse the decline of productivity through sustainable
    reclamation of sodic lands. Second, it is intended to
    prevent additional increases in sodicity through
    strengthening local institutions and enabling effective
    management of such programs with strong beneficiary
    participation and nongovernmental organization (NGO)

  9. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    India

    Despite strong beliefs that property
    titling and registration will enhance credit access,
    empirical evidence in support of such effects remains scant.
    The gradual roll-out of computerization of land registry
    systems across Andhra Pradesh's 387 sub-registry
    offices allows us to combine quarterly administrative data
    on credit disbursed by all commercial banks for an
    eleven-year period (1997-2007) aggregated to the

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