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Land law reform through registration and titling is often viewed as a technocratic, good-governance step toward building market economies and depoliticizing land transactions. In actual practice, however, land registration and titling programs can be highly partisan, bitterly contentious, and...

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Open for business? : institutions, business environment and economic development

Gillanders, Robert; Whelan, Karl - 2010

Recent years have seen a significant focus in the literature on growth and development on the idea that legal and political institutions are the key determinant of economic development. The main finding of this paper is that the focus on the primacy of legal and political institutions may be...

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This paper explores the question of structural transformation and income distribution through the eyes of the pioneer in such analysis, Simon Kuznets. It argues that his 1955 paper stands the test of time in providing insights which are relevant to understanding current phenomena like the...

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The impact of ICTs on women's economic empowerment

Nikulin, Dagmara - 2016

It is widely argued that ICTs enable the inclusion of low-skilled and traditionally marginalized groups, such as women, people with disabilities, and workers at the base of the pyramid (BoP), in the labor market. In this paper, we investigate the determinants of female participation in the labor...

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The paradox of land reform, inequality and development in Colombia

Faguet, Jean-Paul; Sánchez Torres, Fabio; Villaveces, … - 2017

land reform's effects are highly bimodal. Most of Colombia's 1100+ municipalities lack a landed elite. Here, rural … such an elite does exist and landholding is highly concentrated, such positive effects are counteracted, resulting in … and negative - flow through local policy, which elites distort to benefit themselves. Our evidence implies that land …

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Decentralizing for a deeper democracy and a more supple state

Faguet, Jean-Paul; Fox, Ashley; Pöschl, Caroline - 2015

Well-designed decentralization can deepen democracy and strengthen the state in five key ways. Decentralizing below the …

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