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Reforming land and real estate markets [PDF]

Land and real estate reforms have not been effective at achieving their objectives, in part because of how they have been designed and implemented. To be successful, reforms must become comprehensive in design, argue the authors, although implementation ...
Galal, Ahmed, Razzaz, Omar
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Unlocking Antlers? An Evaluation of an Environmental Mediation Process in Scotland Based on Direct Observation

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental conflicts are increasing as is interest in ways they can be managed. However, evaluations of Environmental Conflict Resolution (ECR) processes based on direct observation remain scarce, despite ECR existing for over half a century.
Callum Leavey‐Wilson, Janet Fisher, Sam Staddon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Securing property rights in transition: lessons from implementation of China's rural land contracting law [PDF]

This paper is motivated by the emphasis on secure property rights as a determinant of economic development in recent literature. The authors use village and household level information from about 800 villages throughout China to explore whether legal ...
Deininger, Klaus, Jin, Songqing
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Patterns and Drivers of Spanish Corporate Commitment to the UN Global Compact: A Quantitative Approach

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents a quantitative assessment of Spanish companies' commitment to the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Analyzing over 1000 participating firms, we identify prioritization patterns and examine structural factors influencing SDG adherence.
Juan Laborda, Juan Pérez
wiley   +1 more source

LAND REFORM POLICY FORMULATION IN SOUTH AFRICA AND ZIMBABWE: IMPLICATIONS FOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT

Journal of Social Sciences
Intense ideological and political standoffs persist over land and agrarian reform in former settler countries where land access, ownership, and utilisation wield enormous socio-economic and political implications.
ZINDI, Beauty, NDHLOVU, Emmanuel
doaj   +1 more source

THE PROBLEMS OF LAND REFORM INCOMPLETENESS IN UKRAINE [PDF]

Scientific Papers Series : Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and Rural Development, 2019
The course of Land reform in Ukraine is analyzed, its positive and negative results are revealed both in the issues of rational agricultural lands use, especially in solving the ecological component in land use and in the problems of social and economic ...
Myroslav BOHIRA, Nazar STUPEN, Ruslana TARATULA   +2 more
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Does reinforcing spouses’ land rights improve children’s outcomes? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in rural Vietnam [PDF]

The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between laws strengthening women’s rights, and children’s outcomes, namely child labor and educational attainment. We analyze the effects of a land reform introduced in Vietnam in 2003 that had the
Gaia Narciso, Julia Anna Matz
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Board Composition, Sustainability Reporting, and the Moderating Role of a Contextual Issue: Evidence From an Emerging Country

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of board composition (BC) on sustainability reporting (SR) in financial firms listed on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), with a focus on the moderating role of non‐performing loans (NPLs). Using 421 firm‐year observations from 49 firms (2016–2024) and an ordinary least squares (OLS) regression model, the results ...
Sumon Kumar Das, Prome Akter
wiley   +1 more source

‘Social policy by other means?’ land reform, gender and welfare in Zimbabwe

Cogent Social Sciences
The ‘social policy by other means’ literature, from the viewpoint of mainstream comparative welfare state research, frames land and agrarian reform as a ‘functional equivalent’ of and an ‘unconventional’ form of social policy.
Newman Tekwa, Jimi O. Adesina
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Impact of Land Reform on Productivity, Land Value and Human Capital Investment: Household Level Evidence from West Bengal [PDF]

While land reform has been the subject of considerable scholarly debate, most of the analyses have been at the aggregate level and focused on rather short-term effects.
Deininger, Klaus W., Jin, Songqing, Yadav, Vandana   +2 more
core   +1 more source