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  1. 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.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2003

    Land policies are of fundamental importance to sustainable growth, good governance, and the well-being of, and the economic opportunities open to, both rural and urban dwellers - particularly the poor. To this end, research on land policy, and analysis of interventions related to the subject, have long been of interest to the Bank's Research Department, and other academic, and civil society institutions.

  3. Library Resource
    March, 2013
    Brazil

    The objective of this review of
    resettlement policy and implementation in Brazil, is to
    identify ongoing good practices, as well as areas for
    further improvement. It draws upon an assessment of the
    Brazilian legal and institutional framework related to land
    acquisition for projects in the public interest, a rapid
    evaluation of the resettlement programs in six projects
    (three projects that received Bank financing and three

  4. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Malawi

    This paper uses a rural household survey
    dataset collected in 2006 and 2008 to investigate the impact
    of a market-based land resettlement project in southern
    Malawi. The program provided a conditional cash and land
    transfer to poor families to relocate to larger plots of
    farm land. The average treatment effect of the program is
    estimated using a difference-in-difference matching
    technique based on propensity score matching; qualitative

  5. Library Resource
    July, 2013
    Nicaragua

    This report centers on the problems
    stemming from land issues in Nicaragua. The report's
    main recommendations deal with four priority actions:
    institutional reform; adjustments to the legal framework;
    systematic regularization of land rights; and, firmly
    addressing previous land invasions, and preventing future
    invasions. The issue of land distribution, and ownership is
    especially critical in Nicaragua; indeed, the country

  6. Library Resource
    August, 2014
    Moldova

    The objective of this policy note on
    land is to assist the Government of Moldova in improving the
    effectiveness of land management in agriculture, with a view
    to enhancing the sector's contribution to
    Moldova's economic growth and poverty reduction
    objectives. The note reviews the progress that has been
    made to date on land reform in Moldova, and provides
    rigorous economic analysis of the impacts of the reforms and

  7. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    China

    China has undergone a profound economic and social transformation as it moves from a centrally-planned to a market-oriented economy. Land issues are implicated in this ongoing transformation in numerous important ways - as key factors in China's quest for economic growth, national food security and social stability; as important influences in the rapid growth of China's cities as well as the future of its agriculture; and as central features in local government finance and in the growth and stability of the financial and banking sector.

  8. Library Resource
    August, 2012

    On December 26 2004, a 9.3 magnitude
    earthquake struck the Indian Ocean and unleashed a blast of
    energy, creating a tsunami three stories high. The disaster
    which claimed more than 228,000 lives had an impact on the
    lives of more than 2.5 million people causing close to US$
    11.4 billion of damage in 14 countries. The highest price
    was paid in Aceh, which had the greatest death toll of
    130,000 confirmed dead and a further 37,000 reported

  9. Library Resource
    March, 2013
    Global

    Land policy, administration and
    management are areas of strong client demand for technical
    advice and operational support. This review sought to help
    the Bank better position itself to present coherent advice
    on policy, institutional arrangements and practice. The
    potential implications are a lowering of reputational risk
    to the Bank; greater efficiency in the process including
    joint data gathering; and building of greater momentum and

  10. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

    Land reform can broadly be divided into
    land tenure reform-the establishment of secure and
    formalized property rights in land-and land
    redistribution-the transfer of land from large to small
    farmers. The paper is therefore divided into two chapters.
    The first chapter gives a short narrative of some of the key
    land tenure and land policy issues. While these issues
    remain politically sensitive, there is a solid consensus

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