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  1. Library Resource
    Approaches to Urban Slums : A Multimedia Sourcebook on Adaptive and Proactive Strategies cover image
    Training Resources & Tools
    May, 2012
    Global

    Approaches to urban slums are a
    multimedia sourcebook that comprises 14 self-running
    audiovisual presentations and 18 video interviews. It is
    organized into four broad sections: adaptive approaches,
    proactive approaches, case profiles, and thematic
    interviews. The sourcebook itself, which contains more than
    nine viewing hours of content on CD-ROM, does not exist in
    printed format. This guide provides an overview of the

  2. Library Resource
    March, 2012

    This book suggests how that exploration
    should be undertaken, and how a monitoring system that has a
    solid conceptual basis and is both easy to operate and
    reasonable in cost can then be put into practice. Long the
    ideal of many scholars and observers of urban problems, such
    a system may now be close to realization. In this book,
    examples of Latin American cities are used as case studies.
    As argued in the first chapter, there are good reasons to

  3. Library Resource
    August, 2012

    This note reviews the role legal aid can
    play as a catalyst to empower and strengthen the livelihoods
    of the poor in a World Bank-funded project in the Indian
    state of Andhra Pradesh (AP), the AP Rural Poverty Reduction
    Project. This note shows how land-related legal aid
    activities can be implemented to support community-driven
    development project objectives. Initial evidence on the
    positive impacts of legal aid on economic and social

  4. 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

  5. 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.

  6. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Thailand

    In the 1980s the Thai government tried to legalize squatters by issuing special titles that restricted the sale and rental of the land. Using data from 2,874 farming households collected in 1997, the author finds that in places where these government titles where issued, leased plots are more likely to be titled than those that are self-cultivated. For these areas, he uses a model to estimate a 6 percent risk premium in the rental rate for untitled plots.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    May, 2012
    Vietnam

    The policy reforms called for in the
    transition from a socialist command economy to a developing
    market economy bring both opportunities and risks to a
    country's citizens. In poor economies, the initial
    focus of reform efforts is naturally the rural sector, which
    is where one finds the bulk of the population and almost all
    the poor. Economic development will typically entail moving
    many rural households out of farming into more remunerative

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