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Addis deals: reckoning with the informal governance of urban structural transformation
Robi, Selam - 2024
African cities are increasingly seen as key to unlocking national structural transformation and inclusive growth, as they tend to host the majority of the non-productive and informal labour force; attract the lion's share of domestic investment in non-productive sectors; and host different...
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Cocaine cities : exploring the relationship between urban processes and the drug trade in South America
Navarro, Ignacio A. - 2011
The relationship between the cocaine trade and urban land markets in South America has been overlooked by the mainstream economics and urban studies literature. This paper examines two avenues through which the cocaine trade can have a large impact on urban development in producer countries: (i)...
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The effects of rural land right security on labour structural transformation and urbanization : evidence from Thailand
Chankrajang, Thanyaporn - 2012
labour structural transformation from agriculture to non-agriculture as well as on urbanization, with a specific focus on … Although SPK4-01 titling alone is found to have no significant effect on urbanization, its impact depends significantly on … within-province transport infrastructure. More specifically, rural land right security increases urbanization more in …
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The effects of land titling in Tanzania
Aikaeli, Jehovaness; Markussen, Thomas - 2017
We use household survey data to investigate the effects of formal, private property rights to agricultural land on agricultural investment, land valuation and access to credit in Tanzania. Results show that while there are no detectable effects of formal, private land property rights (written...
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Where is commercial farming expanding in Mozambique? : evidence from agricultural surveys
Glover, Steven M.; Salvucci, Vincenzo; Jones, Sam - 2016
This paper studies the dynamics of the agricultural sector in Mozambique, focusing on the role of commercial farms. Using agricultural survey data from 2002 to 2012, we analyse the spatial distribution of large farms and identify factors influencing their location decisions. We find that the...
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Legal empowerment of the poor through property rights reform : tensions and trade-offs of land registration and titling in sub-Saharan Africa
Boone, Catherine - 2017
Land registration and titling in Africa has been seen as a means of legal empowerment of the poor that can protect smallholders' and pastoralists' rights of access to land and other land-based resources. Land registration is also on the ethnojustice agenda in parts of Africa and beyond. Yet...
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Agricultural risks, the COVID-19 pandemic, and farm household welfare and diversification strategies in Africa
Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Karakara, Alhassan Abdul-Wakeel; … - 2022
Agricultural activities in many African countries are bedevilled by a range of risk factors. Using micro-level household datasets from a range of countries in Africa, we examine the drivers of agricultural risks, while exploring the role of context as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic...
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Do firms learn by exporting or learn to export? : evidence from Senegalese manufacturing plant
Fatou, Cissé; Choi, Ji Eun - 2015
The increasing quantity of literature investigating the impact of trade openness on firm efficiency has not yet provided a definite prediction of the direction of causality. This paper investigates how the relationship between exporting and productivity impacts on manufacturing sectors in...
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Inter- and intra-farm land fragmentation in Viet Nam
Markussen, Thomas; Tarp, Finn; Thiep, Do Huy; Tuan, … - 2016
This paper uses panel data at commune, household, and plot levels to study the causes and effects of agricultural land fragmentation in rural Viet Nam. We focus on both inter-farm fragmentation (the division of land into many small farms) and intra-farm fragmentation (the division of each farm...
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The efficiency of states and cities : is there a case for public land leasing and sales to finance India's cities?
Sridhar, Kala Seetharam - 2011
In this study an attempt has been made to assess the potential of land as a municipal financing tool in four Indian cities, to enable better public service delivery and attainment of the MDGs. The institutional arrangements for land use are fragmented in India's cities between the urban...
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