This draft paper outlines a strategy for World Bank involvement in land policies. It focuses on property rights to land, land transactions, and socially optimal use of land.
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Library Resourcejanvier, 2002
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Library Resourcejanvier, 2001Thaïlande, Asie orientale, Océanie
This article discusses the extent to which the location of roads s and protected areas affects deforestation in North Thailand. The article stresses that establishing protected areas (national parks together with wildlife sanctuaries) in North Thailand did not reduce the likelihood of forest clearing, but wildlife sanctuaries may have reduced the probability of deforestation.
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Library Resourcejanvier, 2002
This paper examines factors influencing a household’s willingness to participate in community based service provision programs. Using data from a recently completed geo-referenced household survey for Bangalore, India, two important hypotheses on why households engage in collective action are tested: does tenure security enhance the probability of participation mainly because the resulting appreciation in housing values can be capitalised and the anticipated benefit stream from service provision is accrued over a longer period?
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Library Resourcejanvier, 2002Chine, Asie orientale, Océanie
This paper addresses the issue of land security and sustainability. The paper tackles the assumption that, in the case of China, giving farmers more secure land rights would undermine the function of land as a social safety net and, as a consequence, not be sustainable or command broad support.The report draws on data from three provinces, one of which had adopted a policy to increase security of tenure in advance of the others.
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Library Resourcejanvier, 2001République-Unie de Tanzanie, Afrique sub-saharienne
This paper begins by discussing Tanzania's increasing recognition of the need to bring individuals, local groups, and communities into the policy, planning, and management process if woodlands are to remain productive in the coming decades.The article finds that:central control of forests takes management responsibility away from the communities most dependent on them, inevitably resulting in tensionsTanzania has enthusiastically established community-owned and -managed forest reservesthe most successful initiatives involving communities and individuals have been those that moved away from
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesdécembre, 2001Kirghizistan, Europe, Asie central
The study reviews the macroeconomic developments in the Kyrgyz Republic following the collapse of the Soviet Union, when adjustments were required since output fell by fifty percent between 1991-95, resulting in adverse fiscal consequences, which triggered losses in tax revenues, along with the implicit end of energy subsidies.
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