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  1. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Ethiopia

    Although many African countries have recently adopted highly innovative and pro-poor land laws, lack of implementation thwarts their potentially far-reaching impact on productivity, poverty reduction, and governance. We use a representative household survey from Ethiopia where, over a short period, certificates to more than 20 million plots were issued to describe the certification process, explore its incidence and preliminary impact, and quantify the costs.

  2. Library Resource

    The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

    April, 2014
    Asia

    The six case studies in this book were prepared as background studies for a synthesis report on land administration and reform in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Collectively they cover two main areas of land governance: reforms in redistributing agricultural land; and reforms in land administration. The problems in land ownership inequality and poor land administration are defined and the question of why reforms are necessary is addressed. The first two case studies focus on reforms in redistributing agricultural land in Malawi and South Africa.

  3. Library Resource
    March, 2012

    The eight Millennium Development Goals
    (MDGs) form a blueprint that is agreed to by all the
    world's countries and its leading development
    institutions. The first seven goals are mutually reinforcing
    and are directed at reducing poverty in all its forms. The
    last goal, global partnership for development, is about the
    means to achieve the first seven. To track the progress in
    achieving the MDGs a framework of targets and indicators has

  4. Library Resource
    March, 2012

    The main focus of this book is land
    redistribution. To forge greater consensus among
    practitioners of land reform, and to enable them to make
    better choices among the many options, the book describes
    and analyzes alternative broad paths of implementation,
    using examples and the detailed implementation mechanisms
    that were used in those examples. The objectives of this
    book are to review and analyze: a) the growing consensus on

  5. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Ethiopia

    Over the coming decades, land policy and
    administration, for urban as well as rural areas, will be
    critical for Ethiopia's development. The vast majority
    of people making up the Federal Democratic Republic of
    Ethiopia's (FDRE) predominantly agricultural economy
    live in rural areas. Finally, land policies and
    administration can contribute significantly to the
    objectives of promoting gender equality and protecting

  6. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Niger

    Since the early 1980s, the Government of
    Niger and its development partners have invested more than
    200 billion West African Francs (FCFA) in programs will
    promote sustainable land management (SLM) and other
    activities to reduce poverty and vulnerability. Overall,
    more than 50 programs have promoted SLM in Niger. Despite
    large investments in SLM programs, their impacts on land
    management, agricultural production, poverty, and other

  7. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Global

    The 2007-2008 upsurge in agricultural
    commodity prices gave rise to widespread concern about
    investors causing a "global land rush". Large land
    deals can provide opportunities for better access to
    capital, transfer of technology, and advances in
    productivity and employment generation. But they carry risks
    of dispossession and loss of livelihoods, corruption,
    deterioration in local food security, environmental damage,

  8. Library Resource
    March, 2012

    The developmental impact of institutions to establish and maintain secure property rights to land has been a subject of much debate. The authors review the literature on the impact of land administration interventions in specific contexts, highlighting the dependence of outcomes on the governance environment, the effectiveness of the state apparatus, and the distribution of socio-economic power.

  9. Library Resource
    April, 2012
    Albania

    Albania's radical farmland
    distribution is credited with averting an economic crisis
    and social unrest during the transition. But many believe it
    led to a holding structure too fragmented to be efficient,
    and that public efforts to consolidate plots are needed to
    lay the foundation for greater rural productivity. This
    paper uses farm-level data from the 2005 Albania Living
    Standards Measurement Survey to explore this quantitatively.

  10. Library Resource
    May, 2012

    When government officials are involved in land transactions the scope for arbitrary decision making and corruption is large, and the land issue can turn into a political football among rival political parties.

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