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    Following 26 years of core housing consolidation and the struggle to achieve a sense of dignity

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2013
    South Africa

    This working paper by Tikvah Breimer previously of the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS) and Mark Napier previously of Urban LandMark, analyses the provision of core housing in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, specifically taking into account the residents' response to the state's delivery of core housing. It aims to explore to what extent the South African government's approach to providing large-scale housing addresses the relevant demands in the context of rapid urbanisation.

  2. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2004
    Sub-Saharan Africa

    In this note of food security and land tenure security in Lesotho, the authors present arguments in favour of the enactment and implementation of a legislation in Lesotho that will enhance land tenure security in the country.

  3. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    October, 2009
    Zambia

    Key Policy Message:- Despite having relatively low population densities, inadequate access to land is one of the major causes of rural poverty in Zambia.- The apparent paradox of inadequate access to land for many rural households in a country of low population density is partially reconciled when taking into account that economically viable arable land requires at least some degree of access to basic services, water, road infrastructure, and markets.

  4. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2004
    Sub-Saharan Africa

    After four decades of agricultural-led development strategies in the postindependent Malawi, economic growth has been erratic and a large proportion of the population live below the poverty line and studies suggests that the poverty situation has worsened. Agricultural policies favoured large-scale (estate) production at the expense of smallholder farmers who account for more than 80 percent of households.

  5. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    May, 2015
    Kenya, Eastern Africa

    The present document consists of the official Agenda for the Options by Context Training, held in Kenya, 25-29 May 2015. The event aimed to:
    1. Familiarise all ICRAF DryDev staff with the OxC, R in D and planned comparisons approaches being used.
    2. Test and revise processes for implementing the approaches.
    3. Plan how the methods will be taken 'to scale' in each country.
    4. Produce OxC matrices and planned comparison designs for Kenyan sites.

  6. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2012
    Latvia

    Cadastral valuation model for building land has been approved by Regulations of Cabinet, and is expressed by a mathematical formula. The elements of cadastral valuation model for building land are the following: the base value of the building land, the land area under jurisdiction conditioned by the purpose of use, correction coefficient of the area, the correction coefficient accounting for the changes in the market, the correction coefficient of encumbrances and the correction coefficient of pollution.

  7. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2012
    Belarus

    In course of the research there were appraised the modern conditions of the land market in the conditions of the Republic of Belarus. The characteristic peculiarities of the land market were given. The experiences of execution of the land reforms were analyzed. The directions of state regulation of the land relationships were revealed. The deficiencies that prevent the dynamic development of the land market were revealed.

  8. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2009
    Namibia

    Land tenure in Namibia is regulated by a variety of Acts, some of which date back to as far as 1937, and some of which are

    yet to be approved by Cabinet. This variety of Acts makes it difficult to evaluate the performance of land administration as a

    whole, and the appropriateness of coercive instruments with regards to urban land tenure in particular. In this article we

    evaluate how urban land tenure regularization practices are conducted in Namibia, and to compare new formal procedures,

  9. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2004
    Ghana, Western Africa

    This study attempts to analyse changing patterns of land transfer and ownership, as well as school investments by gender over three generations in customary land areas of Ghana's Western Region. Traditional inheritance rules deny land ownership rights to women. Yet the increase in the demand for women's labour due to the expansion of labour intensive cocoa cultivation has created incentives for husbands to give their wives and children land. Through this and other gift mechanisms, women have increasingly acquired land, thereby reducing the gender gap in land ownership.

  10. Library Resource

    Leveraging Postal Network for Financial and Social Inclusion

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    April, 2016
    Azerbaijan, Europe, Central Asia

    This paper provides a brief overview of the postal network reform in Azerbaijan and transformation of Azerpost, Azerbaijan’s state postal operator, into an efficient platform for basic financial services delivery throughout the country.

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