The Department of Human Settlements reports that between 1994 and 2009, 2.94-million housing units and serviced sites have either been built or were under construction. By September 2010, 1.44-million of these properties were formally registered on the Deeds Registry. This means that about 50% of subsidy beneficiaries had not yet received formal title for their housing. Moreover, since 2005, the percentage of subsidy properties that have been formally registered per year has plummeted.

This research aims to clarify the consequences generated by regional infrastructures strategies on local city growth.

Do regional infrastructure strategies activate transformation processes at a local level? And may these  processes generate virtuous rules for local development in bottom-up transformations?

This book is designed for governments that make decisions on the application of preventive resettlement programs as disaster risk reduction measures, as well as for institutions and professionals in charge of preparing and implementing these programs, civil society organizations participating in resettlement and risk reduction processes, and at-risk communities.

La innovación es la capacidad de generar e incorporar conocimientos para dar respuestas creativas a los problemas del presente. En la situación actual es vista como un factor clave para mejorar la competitividad de las empresas y favorecer el desarrollo sostenible en los territorios. Las pymes tienen una mayor dependencia del territorio, por lo que se analiza cuál es el efecto que la gestión del territorio por parte de las empresas tiene sobre su capacidad de innovación. Se evalúa el sistema de innovación de las pymes de Vigo y su área de influencia.

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Land questions have invigorated agrarian studies and economic history, with particular emphases on its control, since Marx. Words such as ‘exclusion’, ‘alienation’, ‘expropriation’, ‘dispossession’, and ‘violence’ describe processes that animate land histories and those of resources, property rights, and territories created, extracted, produced, or protected on land. Primitive and on-going forms of accumulation, frontiers, enclosures, territories, grabs, and racializations have all been associated with mechanisms for land control.

Under certain circumstances, land titling, property regime changes, and land‐use conversions yield substantial profits. Yet few people possess the wealth, knowledge, and networks to benefit from these procedures. In the Yucatán Peninsula, a region recently targeted as a prominent investment location by the Mexican national government (mainly with the “Tren Maya” megaproject) and the private capital, forestlands collectively owned as ejidos by Mayan peasants are on the trend to complete privatization.

South African cities are under the national and international spotlight again. Community protests over service delivery, disputes about councillor selection, mismanagement and underspending of municipal budgets, and recurrent billing problems have attracted growing public concern. Yet cities have also been fêted for rekindling a spirit of national unity during 2010, delivering world-class transport schemes and leading the economy out of recession.

This technical note on access to finance addresses six questions: 1) what is the access to and use of financial services in the Philippines, how does it vary, and how does it compare to other countries? 2) What financial services are available to different market segments? 3) How do different categories of financial institutions contribute to outreach, and what is their potential to expand outreach? 4) How does the regulatory environment support access to finance? 5) What financial infrastructure is available to make credit decisions?

El propósito de este análisis ha sido la revisión actualizada de los conceptos, criterios y prácticas que se aplican en las principales ciudades y territorios del Corredor Caribe colombiano (las ciudades distritos de Santa Marta, Barranquilla y Cartagena, y el departamento del Magdalena en su franja de Corredor), en relación con los procesos ambientales y de ecoeficiencia asociados al desarrollo de infraestructuras de servicios.