Earlier this year I visited Dharavi in Mumbai, Asia's largest urban slum1. Pervasive economic and social disadvantage are endemic to any slum, a fact which leads inexorably to wider societal instability, representing a serious political challenge to those states in which they emerge. The...

The landscape of China's rural land market has been changed by several significant land right reforms since 1970s. It is always of great interest to both the government and the public to gauge the effectiveness of these reforms. We address this question by investigating the impact of a recent...

Adding a module designed to measure land tenure-related Sustainable Development Goals indicators to the 2018 round of Zambia's labor force survey shows low transferability and high levels of tenure insecurity. Having a title is associated with greater transferability and reduced insecurity....

This paper argues that the notion of sustainability as used in the extant literature is incomplete because of two reasons: (i) a neglect of the spatial dimensions of sustainability and (ii) the absence of a link between sustainability on the one hand and change in behavior on the other. This...