textabstractMainstream adherence to land titling as a strategy to address rural poverty has gained even more sway against the backdrop of the contemporary phenomenon of large-scale farmland acquisitions, known to some as “global land grabbing”. The orthodox narrative, embraced in toto by organisations such as the World Bank, is that formal property rights mitigate the risks of these land acquisitions and allow the poor to access the benefits of these acquisitions.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsFebruary, 2012Philippines
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsJanuary, 2018
Scholars in the international land debate frequently refer to the important role of local and national governments and elites in initiating and facilitating land deals, however without a further elaboration and conceptualization of these important actors. This paper tries to get a grasp of these actors from a political science perspective, hereby defining this special group as political 'power' elites.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsDecember, 1997
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