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January, 1997
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Reports & ResearchDecember, 1997Canada, United States of America, Japan, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Australia, New ZealandThe study identifies measures that have created property rights in the Danish, Dutch and UK fishery sector. Property in this respect is not considered as an asset in the stock of fish but as a stream of benefits, resulting from the right to fish. The limited access to the fishery by the vessel licence and by the recognition as a commercial fisherman have created two forms of property rights in the Danish fishery. In the Netherlands, the national TACs for the individual species have been transformed into transferable individual quota (ITQs).
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January, 1998In this paper, the results of a recent case study of forest conservation and management in Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan, India are reported. Changes in land use, grazing, household fuelwood collection and inadequate management institutions are identified as key factors causing forest degradation. The paper demonstrates that quantitative analysis, employing data from fairly large samples of households and villages, is a useful supplement to the qualitative methods dominating in studies of conservation and natural resource management institutions.
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Library ResourceJanuary, 1998Uganda, Sub-Saharan Africa
The present land tenure situation in Uganda is essentially the result of four factors: customary tenure practices, the mailo tenure system introduced under the British colonial administration, the Land Reform Decree passed by Idi Amin’s government in 1975, and the disrupting social order under the Amin regime and during the period following its downfall. The impacts of the Land Reform Decree and civil disobedience have led to the degradation of common property resources, particularly forest areas and pastures.
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Library ResourceJanuary, 1998Latin America and the Caribbean
The ultimately disappointing results of past redistributive reforms caused contemporary policy-makers in Latin America to search for alternatives. In recent years, the issue of transforming tenure structure through the market mechanism has moved into the spotlight. This paper argues that it is extremely helpful to approach the topic from an institutional perspective. The institution of property rights is central to the discussion. New questions emerge: How are transactions actually being carried out in the rural setting?
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Explores how the institutions of property rights and collective action play a particularly important role in the application of technologies for agricultural and natural resource management.Technologies with long time frames tend to require tenure security to provide sufficient incentives for adoption, while those that operate on a large spatial scale will require collective action to coordinate.
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Policy Papers & BriefsJanuary, 1997PhilippinesThis paper uses three-generation retrospective data from the rural Philippines toexamine the role of the extended family, proxied by alternative measures ofgrandparent coresidence, on investments in children. An extension of the wealthmodel of intergenerational transfers shows that extended family resources may affecttransfers to children if parents are credit constrained. Family-level unobservables areimportant in determining the allocation of education and land between sons anddaughters. Both parent and grandparent pre-marriage wealth affect children’scompleted schooling levels.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsMarch, 1997Indonesia
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