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  1. Library Resource
    Lessons from Afghanistan’s History for the Current Transition and Beyond
    Reports & Research
    September, 2012
    Afghanistan

    Despite interesting patterns from the past and at least superficially striking parallels with the present, policies on Afghanistan have not been adequately informed by an understanding of the country’s history. Nor has the extensive academic literature on Afghan history been translated into policy; on the contrary, much that has been attempted in Afghanistan since late 2001 has been remarkably ahistorical. This report identifies broad historical patterns and distills relevant lessons that may be applicable to policies during the 2011 to 2014 transition and beyond.

  2. Library Resource
    Rural Land Management in Bangladesh

    Problems and Prospects

    Peer-reviewed publication
    December, 2017
    Bangladesh

    Based on a theoretical discussion from global perspective the paper describes present rural land administration and management structure in Bangladesh. Bangladesh is a land scarce country with high-density population. As most of the people live in rural areas and depend on agriculture and allied activities, proper rural land management is crucial. The paper presents an overall view of rural land management in Bangladesh and reveals that the current land management system is almost obsolete. Land administration system is conventional and characterised by inefficiency and corruption.

  3. Library Resource
    BTI 2020 Country Report Sri Lanka
    Conference Papers & Reports
    May, 2020
    Sri Lanka

    The period under review covers 20 months under a coalition government, a constitutional crisis and a few months when the president and the prime minister, leading different political parties, jockeyed for position. There was little political progress under the coalition government. The Office of Missing Persons was set up to investigate extra-legal disappearances and initiated some investigations. Parliament approved legislation to set up the Office of Reparations, but this is yet to be operationalized.

  4. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    October, 2013
    Afghanistan

    Land in Afghanistan is an extremely complicated issue, proving a main source of conflict. Weak governing institutions and a lack of political will to tackle the issue seriously, however, have made it practically impossible to resolve disputes over land and property in an effective and fair manner.

  5. 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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