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  1. Library Resource
    Out of the Cauldron, Into the Fire?

    Risk and the Privatisation of Uzbekistan’s Cotton Sector

    Reports & Research
    June, 2020
    Uzbekistan

    Ulster University and the Uzbek Forum for Human Rights has released the first sector wide study on corporate integrity in Uzbekistan.

    The report and associated policy brief focus on the cotton cluster system, a landmark privatisation initiative designed to improve agro-industrial productivity, and address the structural drivers of systematic forced labour in Uzbekistan. State-organised forced labour regimes in Uzbekistan’s cotton sector have attracted significant domestic and international criticism over the past decade.

  2. Library Resource
    GT
    Conference Papers & Reports
    March, 2015
    South America, Brazil

    Brazil has the fifth-largest national land area in the world and this land resource represents a critical asset for the country’s urban, agricultural, and economic development, also providing essential environmental services. Nevertheless, it has a historical lack of governance over its lands, failing to provide secure land rights and to control the extensive frauds resulting in public and private land grabs. The objective of this study is to depict evidence of these land grabs and propose a typology for analyzing them.

  3. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    April, 2018
    Global

    IN’s latest resource is an introduction to the topic Land and Water Grabbing: A discussion of integrity implications and related risks, which discusses the integrity implications and risks of land and water grabbing. The essay examines the link between land and water grabbing, the people that are most impacted by this, and legal frameworks related to both land and water rights. Land and Water Grabbing describes the impacts of land and water grabbing in Kenya and Ethiopia.

  4. Library Resource

    Vietnam in Transition

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2008
    Vietnam, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    After decades of war, with a dilapidated infrastructure and millions of people dead, wounded or displaced, Vietnam could have been considered a hopeless case in economic development. Yet, it is now about to enter the ranks of middle-income countries. The obvious question is: How did this happen? This paper goes one step further, asking not which policies were adopted, but rather why they were adopted. This question is all the more intriguing because the process did not involve one group of individuals displacing another within the structure of power.

  5. Library Resource

    Household-Level Evidence from the Chengdu National Experiment

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    August, 2015
    China, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    As part of a national experiment in 2008, Chengdu prefecture implemented ambitious property rights reforms, including complete registration of all land together with measures to ease transferability and eliminate migration restrictions. A triple difference approach using the Statistics Bureau’s regular household panel suggests that the reforms increased consumption and income, especially for less wealthy and less educated households, with estimated benefits well above the cost of implementation.

  6. Library Resource
    September, 2013
    Mozambique

    This Country Economic Memorandum reviews
    the significant changes Mozambique underwent in the last
    five years, specifying that to continue its rapid growth,
    and reduce its high levels of poverty, the country will need
    to adopt a new set of reforms. Such reforms, focused on
    increasing the profitability of agriculture, and promoting
    labor-intensive manufacturing activities, hold the best hope
    to move poverty into prosperity. Three factors - increased

  7. Library Resource
    July, 2013
    Ukraine

    Favorable economic conditions offer a
    window of opportunity for the Ukrainian government External
    factors served as a catalyst for the economic turnaround but
    policies and reforms have also played a critical role.
    Nevertheless, the positive trends will weaken without vision
    at the top level of government. An "insider
    economy" threatens to become a primary obstacle to
    Ukraine's future development and also weakens the link

  8. Library Resource
    February, 2013
    Palestine

    The purpose of this Transport Sector
    Note (TSN) is to assist the Palestinian Authority (PA) in
    developing a strategy for the sector that can aid in
    addressing the immediate constraints and transport issues in
    support of the PA's effort to revive the national
    economy, improve mobility and reduce poverty. The TSN also
    aims to assist the responsible sector ministries prepare a
    coherent strategic framework and program for the sector.

  9. Library Resource
    May, 2012
    Burundi

    The study on the sources of rural growth
    in Burundi results from a meticulous work carried out by
    eminent experts of the World Bank in response to a request
    of the Government of Burundi. It describes the global
    environment, which explains poverty aggravation and builds
    proposals to overcome most binding constraints to growth in
    Burundi. This study is an important contribution in the
    fight against poverty, as it identifies ways to resume

  10. Library Resource
    March, 2013

    Interest in investment climates has
    emerged relatively recently. In the 1960s and 1970s,
    governments in many countries believed they should play a
    direct role in rural credit, input supply, production,
    trade, transport, distribution, and even marketing. However,
    in the 1980s and 1990s, government-dominated systems fell
    into disgrace because of poor performance. For the rural
    sector, the primary focus had traditionally been on

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