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  1. Library Resource
    June, 2013
    Africa

    This is covers land administration and
    reform in Sub-Saharan Africa, and is highly relevant to all
    developing countries around the world. It provides simple
    practical steps to turn the hugely controversial subject of
    "land grabs" into a development opportunity by
    improving land governance to reduce the risks of
    dispossessing poor landholders while ensuring mutually
    beneficial investors' deals. This book shows how Sub

  2. Library Resource
    June, 2013
    Uganda

    While there is a large, though
    inconclusive, literature on the impact of land titles in
    Africa, little attention has been devoted to the study of
    land conflict, despite evidence on increasing incidence of
    such conflicts. The authors use data from Uganda to explore
    who is affected by land conflicts, whether recent legal
    changes have helped to reduce their incidence, and to assess
    their impact on productivity. Results indicate that

  3. Library Resource
    June, 2013

    This report provides tremendous insight
    on gender norms an area that has been resistant to change,
    and that constrains achievement of gender equality across
    many diverse cultures. The report synthesizes data collected
    from more than 4,000 women and men in 97 communities across
    20 countries. It is the largest dataset ever collected on
    the topic of gender and development, providing an
    unprecedented opportunity to examine potential patterns

  4. Library Resource
    June, 2013

    This report 'Turning the right
    corner - ensuring development through a low carbon transport
    sector' emphasizes that developing countries need to
    transition to a low carbon transport sector now to avoid
    locking themselves into an unsustainable and costly future.
    Furthermore, it argues that this transition can be
    affordable if countries combine policies to reduce
    greenhouse gas emissions with broader sector reforms aimed

  5. Library Resource
    June, 2013
    China

    The authors evaluate the impact of two
    key factor market distortions in China on rural-urban
    inequality and income distribution. They find that creation
    of a fully functioning land market has a significant impact
    on rural-urban inequality. This reform permits agricultural
    households to focus solely on the differential between farm
    and non-farm returns to labor in determining whether to work
    on or off-farm. This gives rise to an additional 10 million

  6. Library Resource
    June, 2013
    Turkmenistan

    Turkmenistan's unique approach to
    land reform and farm restructuring has produced a
    significant shift to individual or household-based farming,
    with more than three-quarters of the arable land leased to
    individual households or small groups. Most leaseholders
    consider this land to be rightfully theirs, and they expect
    to keep it in the future, either as private owners, or
    through extension of their leasehold. However, individual

  7. Library Resource
    June, 2013

    This paper examines the channels through
    which alternative property rights institutions affect
    investment. These institutions are defined by a
    society's enforced laws, regulations, governance
    mechanisms and norms concerning the use of resources. A
    transaction cost framework is used to analyze the incentive
    impact of various types of property rights, liability rules,
    and rules regarding contracts. This framework is used to

  8. Library Resource
    June, 2013
    Namibia

    Community-based natural resource
    management is an important strategy to conserve and
    sustainably use biodiversity and wildlife in Namibia. The
    authors examine the extent to which conservancies have been
    successful in meeting their primary goal of improving the
    lives of rural households. They evaluate the benefits of
    community conservancies in Namibia by asking three
    questions: Do conservancies increase household welfare? Are

  9. Library Resource
    June, 2013
    Kenya

    Considerations of risk and vulnerability
    are key to understanding the dynamics of poverty. This study
    conceives vulnerability as expected poverty and illustrates
    a methodology to empirically assess household vulnerability
    using pseudo panel data derived from repeated cross sections
    augmented with historical information on shocks. Application
    of the methodology to data from rural Kenya shows that in
    1994 rural households faced on average a 40 percent chance

  10. Library Resource
    June, 2013

    What factors influence community
    participation in the delivery of urban services? In
    particular, does security of tenure enhance the probability
    of participation as it provides individuals with incentives
    to act collectively in pursuit of a common objective? And
    are collective efforts less likely to succeed when there is
    a high degree of heterogeneity in culture or endowments
    among community members? The authors use household level

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