Land sales and rental markets in transition - evidence from rural Viet Nam [PDF]
The extent to which households should be allowed to transfer their land rights in post-socialist transition economies is of considerable policy interest.
Deininger, Klaus, Songqing Jin
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How Do Community-based Legal Programs Work: Understanding the Process and Benefits of a Pilot Program to Advance Women's Property Rights in Uganda [PDF]
, 2011 This document presents women's property rights, especially access to land, are increasingly recognized as critical to achieving poverty reduction and gender equality.
Krista Jacobs +2 more
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Customary Land Rights Versus Land Use Rights (HGU)
Interdiciplinary Journal and Hummanity (INJURITY)This study discusses the legal conflict between customary rights of customary law communities and the right to use business (HGU) given by the state to third parties, especially large companies. Customary rights as communal rights of indigenous peoples are recognized in a limited way in the Basic Agrarian Law (UUPA), but in practice they are often ...
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Land Rights and Their Impacts on Agricultural Efficiency, Investments and Land Markets in Zimbabwe [PDF]
This paper summarizes results of case studies and panel group discussions carried out in Zimbabwe recently to find out the relationship between land rights and agricultural efficiency, investment and land markets in the smallholder agricultural sector ...
Mutema, Maxwell
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Land, trees, and women: evolution of land tenure institutions in Western Ghana and Sumatra [PDF]
This research report examines three questions that are central to IFPRI research: How do property-rights institutions affect efficiency and equity? How are resources allocated within households? Why does this matter from a policy perspective?
Otsuka, Keijiro, Quisumbing, Agnes R.
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A ‘de Soto Effect’ in Industry? Evidence from the Russian Federation [PDF]
Russia’s tremendous inter-regional variation in the pace of industrial land rights reform has meant that geography has helped determine the current tenure status of firms’ production plots as much as any individual firm characteristics.
Pyle, William, Schoors, Koen
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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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The Road Goes Ever On and On: A Path Through the Wilderness on R.S. 2477 Litigation in Alaska [PDF]
, 2015 Seeking to encourage people to settle the public domain, the federal government established the R.S. 2477 right of way, a grant to construct highways over land in the public domain.
Jackson, Michelle
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, 2018 Land rights define socially recognized modes of access to land and natural resources within a given society. They are made up of bundles of elementary rights that differ according to the resources concerned. Shaped by the historical interplay of power, wealth, and identity, they combine variable and dynamic configurations of individual prerogatives and
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Female Land Rights and Rural Household Incomes in Brazil, Paraguay and Peru [PDF]
This paper explores the determinants of female land rights and their impact on household income levels among owner-operated farms in Brazil, Paraguay and Peru.
Carmen Diana Deere +3 more
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