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Manufacturing bittersweet: sugar-energy sector, coloniality of power and expropriation of Guarani and Kaiowá territories in Mato Grosso do Sul (2002-2014) [PDF]
, 2023 Fernanda Cristina Nogueira Figueiredo MARTINS
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Property rights and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon [PDF]
This paper focuses on the impact of property rights insecurity on deforestation in the Brazilian Legal Amazon. Deforestation is considered as a risk management strategy: property rights insecurity reduces the present value of forests and fosters forest ...
Catherine Araujo Bonjean +4 more
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Reliance Remedies at the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes [PDF]
, 2009 Examines situations in which the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes has awarded damages for the cost of the investment, which may be compared to the contract law concept of reliance damages.
Collins, D. A.
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The Politics of Detailed Urban Planning: Institutional Change and Urban Rentiership in Madagascar
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article employs a political settlements approach to explore the formal and informal institutional dynamics that underpin contemporary rentier capitalism in urban Africa through the case of Antananarivo, Madagascar. It examines how Malagasy ruling elites created opportunities for land‐based rent seeking by establishing new institutional ...
Fanny Voélin
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The economics of a multilateral investment agreement. [PDF]
This paper models a multilateral agreement on investment (MAI) as a coordination device. Multinational enterprises can invest in any number of countries. Without a multilateral investment agreement, expropriation triggers an investment stop by the single
Che, Jiahua, Willmann, Gerald
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Frontiers in Sustainable CitiesThis paper investigates the effect of land expropriation on the livelihoods of farmers expropriated from the peripheries of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A mixed methods approach, including household surveys, key informant interviews, field visits, and document
Yeshitla Agonafir Ayenachew +2 more
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Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sierra Leone's land governance reform policies are often based on the neoliberal assumption that market growth, gender equality and women's empowerment are mutually compatible objectives. Contrary to this assumption, this article argues that while market‐oriented reforms can help to destabilize legal and cultural norms that are discriminatory ...
Mohamed Sesay, Simeon Koroma
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Climate shocks, democratization and (a culture of) cooperation
Economica, EarlyView.Abstract While the direct economic effects of adverse climate shocks are well known, their indirect institutional impact is still poorly understood. To clarify this, we test the idea that adverse climate shocks push time‐inconsistent elites to enact inclusive political institutions, and non‐elites to embrace strong norms of cooperation.
Giacomo Benati, Carmine Guerriero
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Land Reforms in Cuba: First Empirical Assessment on Productivity Using Crop‐Level Panel Data
Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Land reforms implemented in Cuba since 2008 have aimed to increase agricultural production by distributing state‐owned idle lands with land‐use rights. The reforms restricted farmers with the rights from cultivating perennial and capital‐intensive crops.
Yoshihiko Hashiguchi +1 more
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