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  1. Library Resource
    Creating land markets for rural revitalization: Land transfer, property rights and gentrification in China
    Peer-reviewed publication
    November, 2020
    China

    The reform of collective land ownership in post-socialist contexts offers a useful window into how changes in property rights shape and structure the dynamics of territorial transformation. Focusing on China's rural revitalization campaign, this paper demonstrates how the state, as creator and regulator of land rights and property titles, facilitates landscape change by relaxing regulations over the lease of rural land and creating market institutions that favour land transfers to organized capital, in this case tourism companies and property developers.

  2. 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.

  3. Library Resource
    July, 2014

    The World Bank's revised forest
    policy came into being in 2002 and covers all types of
    forests. It has the following key objectives: (i) harnessing
    the potential of forests to reduce poverty in a sustainable
    manner; (ii) integrating forests effectively into
    sustainable development; and (iii) protecting vital local
    and global environmental services and values. The policy
    enables the bank to fully engage in forestry throughout the

  4. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Egypt

    The objective of this study, requested
    by the Minister of Housing, Utilities and Urban Development,
    is to assist the government of Egypt in: formulating a
    coherent national affordable housing strategy which puts in
    place an effective institutional and regulatory framework
    that creates the necessary conditions for an efficiently
    functioning housing market, devises the incentive structure
    needed to promote increased private sector participation in

  5. Library Resource
    February, 2013
    Sudan

    This study responds to the need for
    information and analysis on the urban sector in Sudan, to
    inform the Bank's policy dialogue with the Government
    of Sudan (GoS) on urban and local government issues, and to
    inform the design of future Bank assistance. The first phase
    of this analytical exercise, which is the focus of this
    report, develops an overview of the urban landscape. The
    report is structured as follows: section two describes the

  6. Library Resource
    January, 2015

    This paper uses farm panel data from
    China to examine the dynamics of land transactions, machine
    investments, and the demand for machine services. Recently,
    China's agriculture has experienced a large expansion
    of machine rentals and machine services provided by
    specialized agents, which has contributed to mechanization
    of agricultural production. The empirical results show that
    an increase in nonagricultural wage rates leads to expansion

  7. Library Resource
    May, 2014
    Vietnam

    The extent to which households should be
    allowed to transfer their land rights in post-socialist
    transition economies is of considerable policy interest. The
    authors use data from Vietnam, a transition country that
    allows rental and sales of land use rights, to identify
    factors conducive to the development of land markets and to
    assess the extent to which land transfers enhance productive
    efficiency and transfer land to the poor. They find that

  8. Library Resource
    June, 2014

    The first paper of this section
    (Durand-Laserve) documents how increasing pressures on urban
    land and the 'commodification' of shelter and
    settlement has increased 'market evictions' of
    families holding intermediate tide to property, although
    international declarations and pressures have contributed to
    reducing 'forced evictions.' The second paper
    (Mooya and Cloete) uses the tools of the New Institutional

  9. Library Resource
    March, 2015

    The first paper of this section
    (Durand-Laserve) documents how increasing pressures on urban
    land and the 'commodification' of shelter and
    settlement has increased 'market evictions' of
    families holding intermediate tide to property, although
    international declarations and pressures have contributed to
    reducing 'forced evictions.' The second paper
    (Mooya and Cloete) uses the tools of the New Institutional

  10. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Uganda

    This is the second part of land studies
    on Northern Uganda designed to inform the Peace, Recovery
    and Development Plan (PRDP). This second part of the study,
    undertaken during the second half of 2007 in the Lango and
    Acholi regions, builds on the first phase conducted in 2006
    in the Teso region. This second study has been designed to
    present a more quantitative analysis of trends on disputes
    and claims on land before displacement, during displacement

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