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Learning to Industrialize: Ideas, Institutions and Power in the Development of Industrial Parks in Ethiopia

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past decade, industrial policy has had a resurgence across Africa as countries pursue catch‐up development, partly inspired by East Asia's state‐led transformation. With increased attention in the discussion given to learning by doing and learning by emulation at the government level, policy learning has invariably been advocated with
Jing Zhang
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How to Protect Future Generations Using Tax Base Restrictions [PDF]

This paper studies constitutional restrictions on the tax base that protect future generations from expropriation and improve the optimality of investment in Intergenerational Public Goods (IPGs). The choice of the tax base matters because it affects how
Antonio Rangel
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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, Yoshimichi Murakami   +1 more
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Land Encroachment: India’s Disappearing Common Lands [PDF]

Opportunistic land encroachment, resulting from costly and incomplete enforcement of common land boundaries, is a problem in many less-developed countries. A multi-period model of such encroachment is presented in this paper.
Elizabeth J. Z. Robinson
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Деякі аспекти правового регулювання інституту викупу і примусового відчуження земельних ділянок для суспільних потреб чи з мотивів суспільної необхідності [PDF]

, 2010
Стаття присвячена дослідженню особливостей та проблем нормативно-правової бази, яка регламентує викуп для суспільних потреб і відчуження з мотивів суспільної необхідності земель, що перебувають у приватній власності, та нерухомого майна, що на ній ...
Грицак, О. В.
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Foundation governance for the purposeful ownership of enterprise

European Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Foundation‐owned companies are regarded as real‐world examples of commitment to a company purpose, and several world‐class companies have this ownership structure. They have been found to perform surprisingly well, given the accountability and incentive problems anticipated by conventional economic theories when nonprofit organizations own ...
Terry McNulty, Steen Thomsen
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of Land Expropriation on Land-Lost Farmers’ Health: Empirical Evidence from Rural China

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019
With rapid urbanization and industry development, China has witnessed substantial land acquisition. Using the rural household survey data, this paper examines the impact of land expropriation on land-lost farmers’ self-reported health with the ordered ...
Yuxin Wang, Wenlong Li, J. Xiong, Ying Li, Huaqing Wu   +4 more
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Informal Women's Work in Public Spaces: Why Should It Matter?

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Informal women's work in public spaces is central to livelihoods and social dynamics in cities of the Global South. For decades, public spaces have functioned as vital sites of economic activity, particularly for women engaged in informal work.
Philipa Birago Akuoko, Michèle Amacker
wiley   +1 more source

Property rights in a very poor country : tenure insecurity and investment in Ethiopia [PDF]

This paper provides evidence from one of the poorest countries of the world that the property rights matter for efficiency, investment, and growth. With all land state-owned, the threat of land redistribution never appears far off the agenda. Land rental
Ali, Daniel Ayalew, Dercon, Stefan, Gautam, Madhur   +2 more
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Sovereignty by Subtraction: The Multilateral Agreement on Investment [PDF]

, 1998
The proposed Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAl) represents a major step in the evolution of sovereignty, which includes the power of a nation-state to govern without external controls.
Stumberg, Robert
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