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Using panel data for 189 economies from 2005 to 2013, this paper shows that business-friendly regulations are correlated with the poverty headcount at the country level. This association is significant using the World Bank's Doing Business indicators on getting credit and contract enforcement....
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: (a) improvements in the productivity of forest land and labor; (b) strengthened community, household, and women's rights … inform interventions in forest landscapes. The paper identifies five key strategies for reducing poverty in forest landscapes … over forests and land; (c) regional complementary investments in institutions, infrastructure, and public services that …
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The paper studies the market failures associated with land tenure insecurity and information asymmetry in an urban land … use model, and analyzes households' responses to mitigate tenure insecurity. When buyers and sellers of land plots can … pair along trusted kinship lines whereby deception (the non-disclosure of competing claims on a land plot to a buyer) is …
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Despite the literature on rural land property rights, studies on urban land property rights are rare. This paper … studies the impact of an urban land titling program on firm investment. It finds that the program leads to increased …
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