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  1. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Brazil

    Over the medium time horizon, skill upgrading, differentials in sectoral technological progress, and migration of labor out of farming activities are some of the major structural adjustment factors shaping the evolution of an economy and its connected poverty trends. The main focus of the authors is understanding, for the case of Brazil, how a trade shock interacts with these structural forces and ascertaining whether it enhances or hinders medium-term poverty reduction.

  2. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Brazil

    This study looks at the experience of integrated urban upgrading in a low-income neighborhood of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Infrastructure and social investments have been made in the community through a government program, with community participation playing a major role in the design and implementation. This approach is now perceived to be highly successful in terms of its implementation and positive impact on living conditions, and will provide the basis for a major state-wide program.

  3. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Global

    By reviewing the Bank's experience
    with shelter lending, this paper seeks to address the
    question of whether the Bank has helped developing countries
    deal with the inevitable problems that arise with
    urbanization, particularly problems with the provision of
    shelter. It reviews the Bank's performance, with a
    focus on identifying lessons learned so that current demands
    can be more effectively addressed. In contrast to earlier

  4. Library Resource
    June, 2012

    Although sharecropping has long
    fascinated economists, the determinants of this contractual
    form are still poorly understood and the debate over the
    extent of moral hazard is far from settled. The authors
    address both issues by emphasizing the role of landlord
    supervision. When tenant effort is observable, but at a cost
    to the landlord, otherwise identical share-tenants can
    receive different levels of supervision and have different

  5. Library Resource
    June, 2012

    In considering the contribution that Rural Local Institutions (RLIs) can make to Sustainable Livelihoods (SLs), authors bring together two important concerns that emerged among development practitioners in the 1980s and 1990s, respectively. RLIs are important for addressing and mitigating factors of insecurity and instability, dealing in particular with various aspects of vulnerability. RLIs can also support participation (voice), conflict mitigation (peace), and external linkage (market expansion).

  6. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Vietnam

    In the wake of reforms to establish a free market in land-use rights, Vietnam is experiencing a pronounced rise in rural landlessness. To some observers this is a harmless by-product of a more efficient economy, while to others it signals the return of the pre-socialist class-structure, with the rural landless at the bottom of the economic ladder. The authors' theoretical model suggests that removing restrictions on land markets will increase landlessness among the poor, but that there will be both gainers and losers, with uncertain impacts on aggregate poverty.

  7. 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

  8. Library Resource
    June, 2012

    This book reviews the role of addressing
    within the array of urban management tools and explores the
    links between addressing and civic identity, urban
    information systems, support to municipal services, tax
    systems, land management and tenure issues, slum upgrading,
    support to concessionary services, and economic development.
    It outlines current and future applications, highlights
    practices in many African countries, and offers a

  9. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Egypt

    This document builds upon several recent
    studies and reports carried out in the 2006-2007 period. The
    first note, entitled analysis of housing supply mechanisms
    (World Bank), analyzes the situation of housing supply in
    urban areas in Egypt, including the study of existing formal
    and informal mechanisms for the delivery of urban housing,
    the institutions responsible for supply and regulation, the
    characteristics of the formal and informal stock, and the

  10. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    India

    In India, land continues to be of
    enormous economic, social, and symbolic relevance. The main
    purpose of this report is to review new empirical evidence
    on land administration and land policy, as well as the
    possible interaction between the two, to derive policy
    conclusions. The empirical basis for the discussion of land
    administration is provided by a review of land records,
    survey and settlement, and land registration in 14 states.

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