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development, and poverty reduction, by setting out the results of recent research in a way that is accessible to a wide audience …
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The policy reforms called for in the transition from a socialist command economy to a developing market economy bring both opportunities and risks to a country's citizens. In poor economies, the initial focus of reform efforts is naturally the rural sector, which is where one finds the bulk of...
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This article examines the importance of landholdings in explaining income inequality among family farms in four districts in Georgia following the land reform of the 1990s. Income inequality is decomposed by sources of income and by determinants of income. The results indicate that farm income...
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options affect the poor and disadvantaged, and recommends strategies for alleviating poverty more effectively through land law … environmental protection, poverty eradication, and achievement of gender equity, and it reviews a broad range of experience in land … the alleviation of poverty. Chapter 7 deals with issues of equity and poverty in the context of conservation and …
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Land markets that allow access to land-and to buildings-through secure property rights, at transparent prices, and with efficient permitting processes and land tax systems are essential to a good business environment. Creating such markets, however, can be a long, complex, politically charged...
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, contributing to the low returns from land and perpetuating low growth and poverty. …
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This paper is motivated by the emphasis on secure property rights as a determinant of economic development in recent literature. The authors use village and household level information from about 800 villages throughout China to explore whether legal reform increased protection of land rights...
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The developmental impact of institutions to establish and maintain secure property rights to land has been a subject of much debate. The authors review the literature on the impact of land administration interventions in specific contexts, highlighting the dependence of outcomes on the...
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