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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2009
    Cambodia

    This BMZ comissioned report by GTZ highlights the dramatic increase of land concessions and rising inequality in land distribution in Cambodia. Parts of the study refer to an earlier report by Uch Sophas “Foreign Direct Investment in Land for Biomass Production in Cambodia”. The South-East Asian country Cambodia has an area of 181,035 km2. The Government of Cambodia is adapting its activities to attract FDI, which has lead to a steady increase especially since 2007.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2012
    Laos

    Wars and their aftermaths frequently transform land use and ownership, reshaping 'post-conflict' landscapes through new boundaries, population movements, land reforms and conditions of access. Within a global context of controversial land concessions and farmland acquisitions, we bring to light the continued salience of historical memories of war in the ways land conflicts are being negotiated in Laos.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2012
    Global

    ABSTRACTED FROM THE OBJECTIVES SECTION: These Voluntary Guidelines seek to improve governance of tenure of land*, fisheries and forests. They seek to do so for the benefit of all, with an emphasis on vulnerable and marginalized people, with the goals of food security and progressive realization of the right to adequate food, poverty eradication, sustainable livelihoods, social stability, housing security, rural development, environmental protection and sustainable social and economic development.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2009
    Cambodia

    As shown in this report, harassment of local activists in Cambodia, including defenders of the right to housing, is widespread. Cambodia’s rich and powerful are increasingly abusing the criminal justice system to silence communities standing up against land concessions or business deals affecting the land they live on or cultivate. Many poor and marginalized communities are living in fear of the institutions created to protect them, in particular the police and the courts. As forced evictions increase, public space for discussing them is shrinking.

  5. Library Resource
    Institutional & promotional materials
    December, 2011
    Cambodia

    Political dynamics of the global land grab are exemplified in Cambodia, where at least 27 forced evictions took place in 2009, affecting 23,000 people. Evictions of the rural poor are legitimized by the assumption that non-private land is idle, marginal, or degraded and available for capitalist exploitation. This paper: (1) questions the assumption that land is idle; (2) explores whether land grabs can be regulated through a ‘code of conduct’; and (3) examines peasant resistance to land grabs.

  6. Library Resource
    September, 2015

    Self-help groups (SHGs) are the most
    common form of microfinance in India. The authors provide
    evidence that SHGs, composed of women only, undertake
    collective actions for the provision of public goods within
    village communities. Using a theoretical model, this paper
    shows that an elected official, whose aim is to maximize
    re-election chances, exerts higher effort in providing
    public goods when private citizens undertake collective

  7. Library Resource
    May, 2016

    James D. Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank Group, addressed the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International
    Monetary Fund. He discussed the context in which
    the Bank operates today; the role of the Bank in
    development now, and in the coming years; what the Bank can
    do to achieve its objectives in an effective and accountable

  8. Library Resource
    May, 2016

    These are the prepared remarks
    of Robert S. McNamara, President of the World
    Bank, International Finance Corporation, and the International Development Association (IDA). He declares that our common enterprise is to drive back poverty, to lift living standards and to enhance the dignity of man. The Bank intends to lend twice as much in the next five years as in the previous five. He discusses the Bank’s lending in Asia. He discusses new geographical accents. The Bank and IDA are now

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