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Vulnerability, poverty and coping in Zimbabwe

Bird, Kate; Prowse, Martin - 2008

This paper uses five life histories from three locations in Zimbabwe - one peri-urban, one urban and one rural to … Zimbabwe's recent economic and political turmoil. Together the cases suggest that, similar to Hoddinott's work on the … persistence of the 1993-94 rainfall shock in rural Zimbabwe, above and beyond increased mortality rates and morbidity levels …

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Land reform in Moldova: how viable are emerging peasant farms? An assessment referring to a recent World Bank study

Petrick, Martin - 2000

Based on a case study of two Moldovan regions, the paper challenges the favourable assessment of recently established peasant farms in a World Bank study by LERMAN et al. (1998). The main arguments in favour of a more critical view of the results of land privatisation and farm restructuring are...

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The Cost of Redistributive Land Reform in the Philippines: Assessment of PD 27 and RA 6657 (CARL)

Ballesteros, Marife M. - 2010

This paper examines the cost of implementing redistributive land reform in the Philippines. Land redistribution has become the core feature of land reform in the country since 1972 with the approval of PD 27. The coverage of the program was expanded to all agricultural lands under RA 6657 or...

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CARP Institutional Assessment in a Post-2008 Transition Scenario: Toward a New Rural Development Architecture

Adriano, Fermin D. - 2008

The main objective of the paper is to explore possible institutional arrangements among the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) implementing agencies in a post-2008 transition scenario for CARP. There were three reasons cited for the implementation of the agrarian reform program,...

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CARP Institutional Assessment in a Post-2008 Transition Scenario: Implications for Land Administration and Management (LAM)

Cortez, Felino; Ballesteros, Marife M. - 2008

The objective of this paper is to present the land administration and management (LAM) issues on CARP and determine the necessary institutional reforms on LAM in view of CARP expiration in 2008. The paper discussed the adverse effects brought about by weak land policy and poor land...

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Non-agricultural land use and land reform: theory and evidence from Brazil

Assunção, Juliano J. - 2005

This paper examines the effect of nonagricultural land use on agrarian organization and land reform, providing a simple model to determine its policy implications and some evidence on its importance. It is argued that, if land-rental market is imperfect, there is a role for redistributive land...

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Long-term effects of land reform on human capital accumulation: Evidence from West Bengal

Deininger, Klaus; Jin, Songqing; Yadav, Vandana - 2011

We use data on inter-generational gains in educational attainment by some 500,000 individuals in 200 West Bengal villages to explore gender-differentiated impacts of land reform on human capital accumulation at the individual level. While there are significant gains (of about 0.3 years for...

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Can a populist political party bear the risk of granting complete property rights? Electoral outcomes of Mexico's second land reform

de Janvry, Alain; Gonzalez-Navarro, Marco; Sadoulet, … - 2011

The Mexican land reform, one of the most sweeping in the world, proceeded in two steps: it granted peasants highly incomplete property rights on more than half of the Mexican territory starting in 1914, creating strong economic and political dependence for beneficiaries on the ruling political...

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Poverty and land distribution: Evidence from a natural experiment

Keswell, Malcolm; Carter, Michael - 2011

While land reforms have long been motivated as a potential policy lever of rural growth and development, there is remarkably little evidence of the direct impacts of such reforms. In an effort to fill this lacunae, this paper examines South Africa's Land Redistribution for Agricultural...

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Land reform and landholdings in Brazil

Assunção, Juliano - 2006

Land and wealth are closely related in rural Brazil, a country characterized by high levels of inequality in terms of income or landholdings. After presenting a historical retrospective of land concentration and land reform in Brazil, this study evaluates the impact of the land reform programme...

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