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India - Land Policies for Growth and Poverty Reduction
World Bank - 2012
In India, land continues to be of enormous economic, social, and symbolic relevance. The main purpose of this report is to review new empirical evidence on land administration and land policy, as well as the possible interaction between the two, to derive policy conclusions. The empirical basis...
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India : Land Policies for Growth and Poverty Reduction
World Bank - 2013
In India, land continues to be of enormous economic, social, and symbolic relevance. The way in which land can be accessed and its ownership documented is at the core of the livelihood of the large majority of the poor, especially in rural and tribal areas and determines the extent to which...
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Land policies for growth and poverty reduction
Deininger, Klaus W. - 2003
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Land : Territory, Domain, and Identity
World Bank - 2017
It is acknowledged that conflict over land is a major source of violence in various parts of Mindanao, particularly the prosed Bangsamoro region. Historical accounts trace the root cause of land issues and identity-based conflict to the introduction of the Regalian doctrine of land ownership by...
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China - Integrating Land Policy Reforms II : Strengthening Land Rights for Equitable Growth and Social Harmony
World Bank - 2013
This report evaluates the legal framework for rural land rights, the regulations of rural housing sites, the effects of land requisition on farmers who lose land, and some selected issues affecting urban land rights. The focus of this report is how to enhance property rights in a number of...
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Nigeria - An Economic Analysis of Natural Resources Sustainability : Land Tenure and Land Degradation Issues
World Bank - 2012
The scope and urgency of the threats to Nigeria's rural land are no secret. In 2005, a working group dedicated to … Nigeria's agricultural land. The litany included recognition that: 1) agricultural land use in the country has been …) the majority of Nigeria's farmers are smallholders relying on subsistence-level cultivation practices; 4) the country …
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Local conflict in Indonesia : measuring incidence and identifying patterns
Pradhan, Menno - 2004
"The widespread presence of local conflict characterizes many developing countries such as Indonesia. Outbreaks of violent conflict not only have direct costs for lives, livelihoods, and material property, but may also have the potential to escalate further. Recent studies on large-scale...
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Local Conflict in Indonesia : Incidence and Patterns
World Bank - 2012
Major intrastate conflicts, such as civil wars, and the resulting set-backs for economic and political development, have received increasing research attention in recent years. A growing literature has sought to investigate conditions that affect the probability of countries experiencing...
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Voices of Youth in Post-Conflict Burundi : Perspectives on Exclusion, Gender, and Conflict
World Bank - 2013
This report examines youth in post-conflict Burundi. The research responds to the nascent but growing body of knowledge on conflict, young men and gender. War and violence have devastated societies and economies throughout Africa with young men being the main perpetrators of this violence. This...
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Urban land policy : issues and opportunities
Dunkerley, Harold B. (ed.);  … - 1983
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