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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksPolicy Papers & BriefsFebruary, 2021Kenya
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsMarch, 2016Latin America and the Caribbean, South America, BrazilThis article shows the case of the cerrado region where because of a lack of clear property rights the land market is completely immobilized.It started with the land occupation of Piauí's cerrado region and the creation of its land market in the seventies by the State Development Agency (CONDEPI), which sold with symbolic prices very large properties for cattle and fruit production. The small landowners that occupied previously the region based on common rights were sometimes dispossessed.
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Instruments de droit international et législation nationale applicables en République du Congo
Reports & ResearchJuly, 2020CongoCe rapport présente et analyse les dispositions internationales et nationales encadrant les droits de propriété foncière des communautés locales et populations autochtones en République du Congo.
Il s'agit d'un document à but éducatif visant à améliorer l'accès et la compréhension des lois congolaises.
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2018Colombia
The ‘war on drugs’ has failed. Despite an increase in law enforcement, production levels of coca – the crop used to make cocaine – have hardly altered in the last decade.A 2017 report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime found that coca cultivation in Colombia had increased by 52 per cent; thus, there is an urgent need to find alternative policies to counter illicit behaviour.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJanuary, 2015Chile
Con la anexión de las provincias de Arica y Tarapacá a Chile, los aymaras del altiplano debieron inscribir el dominio de sus tierras en los archivos conservadores de la propiedad, de acuerdo con el sistema jurídico del país, situación que otorga a estos registros documentales un papel importante como repositorio objetivo de un momento importante en la historia indígena regional y nacional. Los antecedentes que se exponen señalan que este fue un proceso masivo que se materializó en pocas décadas que terminó con la mayoría de las propiedades inscritas.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchFebruary, 2018South Africa
During its transition from racial apartheid to democracy in 1994, South Africa’s government announced it would strengthen the tenure rights of the estimated 16 million citizens who lived on communal land. By 2012, however, the government’s own reports concluded that the country had made little progress in the area of communal tenure reform.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchTraining Resources & ToolsJune, 2006Pakistan, Southern Asia
This note provides a short overview of urban land and housing market performance in Punjab Province of Pakistan. It describes the characteristics of well-functioning urban land and housing markets and argues that, at present, the Punjab's urban land and housing markets are not performing well. The paper identifies a range of structural and institutional shortcomings that impede urban land market performance, and then concludes by offering recommendations for making land and housing markets functions better.
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Institutions for Economic Revival
Reports & ResearchTraining Resources & ToolsSeptember, 2009Palestine, Western Asia, Northern AfricaOn August 25, 2009, the 13th Government of the Palestinian Authority (PA) presented a program entitled "Palestine: ending the occupation, establishing the state" (hereafter referred to as the program) outlining several national goals, including the achievement of 'economic independence and national prosperity'. The program accords high priority to the development of the public institutions of the PA in order to achieve the stated national goals.
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Library ResourceTraining Resources & ToolsPolicy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2012
This policy note has two goals. First, to assess whether inclusive business models face specific regulatory hurdles. Second, to recommend policies that creates a business environment conducive to inclusive business. Little research has been conducted on the first goal. This note analyzes survey answers from companies that applied to the G20 Challenge. These companies were asked to rank regulatory obstacles and explain whether these obstacles created significant hurdles to their ability to serve the base of the pyramid.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchPolicy Papers & BriefsMay, 2014Africa, 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.
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