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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In flawed democracies, such as the Republic of Georgia, legal exceptions for urban megaprojects are becoming a standard mode of governance. While frequently analyzed as singular, top‐down sovereign acts, I argue that the imposition of such exceptions is a complex and dispersed process.
David Gogishvili
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract A surge in the number of shopping malls across many African cities reflects capital's responses to the continent's growing middle class and deepening neoliberal globalization. This article develops an analysis of the transcalar nature of these urban investments using the case of the West Hills Mall (WHM) in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (
Rosina Sheburah Essien +5 more
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The compensation for the expropriation of a Land subject to Local Government use. The case of a Land Lease [PDF]
, 2014 The expropriation of property subject to Local Government uses constitutes a particular case whose regulation, as far as what concerns benefits and claims, must be sought in special rules very often done a long time ago or under different Court rulings ...
Benedetto Manganelli, Gianluigi De Mare
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Mode of International Investment and Endogenous Risk of Expropriation [PDF]
In this paper, we develop a politico-economic model to analyze the relationship between the mode of international investment and institutional quality in a non-democratic capital importing country.
Ramin Dadasov, Oliver Lorz
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Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2016 In Arun the Constitutional Court held that section 28 of the Land Use Planning Ordinance (LUPO) vests all land indicated as public roads on a development plan in the local authority upon approval of such a plan.
Ernst Jacobus Marais +1 more
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article connects cultural taste to capitalist mechanisms of redistribution through the concept of political economy of taste. Building on Bourdieusian scholarship on recognition struggles and drawing on Mike Savage and Nancy Fraser, it examines how public performances of taste reshape representations of working‐class culture and how these
Simone Varriale
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Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study traces how gambling in Australia changed from a simple form of leisure, enjoyed by all social classes in colonial times, to a billion‐dollar industry driven by political and economic imperatives. Using a case study, it links vertical fiscal imbalance (VFI), caused by changes to the state‐federal taxation structure, to the ...
Barbara Kinder, Michael B. Charles
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Compensation Method and Rational Standard of Arable Land Expropriation [PDF]
, 2017 This paper discusses the problems in determining the compensational money of arable land expropriation by Income Capitalization Method and Market Comparative Method during the process of arable land expropriation. It also introduces the value composition
Xue, Mingchuan
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Discover SustainabilityAddis Ababa is implementing urban corridor development projects, relying primarily on land expropriation as the key method for land acquisition. However, the economic impacts of expropriation for the corridor development were not examined thoroughly ...
Habtamu Bishaw Asres +3 more
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African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2020 Cameroon is currently witnessing an unprecedented wave of land-based investments, ranging from natural resources exploitation (oil, mining and gas), logging, large infrastructure building, etc. These developments happen in a context of population growth,
Samuel A. Nguiffo
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