Guest commentary by Amanda Richardson, Resource Equity, and Ailey Kaiser Hughes, Landesa.
A growing body of evidence shows a correlation between gender-based violence (GBV) and land rights. Awareness of the possible GBV implications of land interventions is critical to understanding impacts on women.
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Library ResourceMarch, 2015Bangladesh, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Kenya, Liberia, Nicaragua, Rwanda, Uganda
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Library ResourceDecember, 2013Bangladesh, Colombia, India, Kenya
Guest commentary by Dr. Cynthia M. Caron, Assistant Professor of International Development and Social Change, Clark University.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsNovember, 2013South Africa, Guatemala, Brazil, Colombia, Philippines, Thailand, India
USAID welcomes The Coca-Cola Company’s recently announced commitments to ensure that its sugar suppliers protect the land rights of local communities. Coca-Cola - the world’s largest purchaser of sugar - agreed to revise its corporate Supplier Guiding Principles to incorporate principles that recognize and safeguard local communities’ and indigenous peoples’ rights to land and natural resources.
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Library ResourceAugust, 2013Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Pakistan
A guest post by Ashok Sircar, India Program Director of Landesa, a USAID partner and global organization that partners with governments to help secure land rights of the poor. Follow them @Landesa_Global
There is growing recognition that India cannot solve many of its critical development challenges if it doesn’t help the 20 million landless rural families and the millions more who lack legal rights to the land they till. -
Library ResourceOctober, 2012India
Earlier this month, tens of thousands of people in India were marching for land rights. The marchers wanted the government to assure them that they will be given secure rights to agricultural land, homestead rights for landless people, tribunals to resolve land-related cases, and that the National Land Reforms Policy would be presented for public debate within six months. The government agreed to these and other provisions, including implementing the Forest Rights Act and setting up a Task Force on Land Reform – this brought the march to a halt. Here is the agreement.
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Planning Commission of India
IndiaThe Working Group on Land Relations for formulation of 11th Five Year Plan was set up by the Planning Commission under the Chairmanship of Shri D. Band yopadhyay, vide order No. M-12018/1/2005-RD dated March 13, 2006, having the terms of reference and members.
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Library ResourceFebruary, 2014India
This paper pilots an approach to
identifying, categorizing, and mapping public land owned by
the central, state, and local government in urban developed
areas of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The methodology uses
information on plot sizes, location, and ownership that is
publicly available for all areas covered by town planning
schemes. The study examines the extent of unutilized and
underutilized public land, which excludes all cemeteries, -
Library ResourceMarch, 2015India
This paper quantifies the misallocation of manufacturing output and factors of production between establishments across Indian districts during 1989-2010. It first distills a number of stylized facts about misallocation in India, and demonstrates the validity of misallocation metrics by connecting them to regulatory changes in India that affected real property. With this background, the study next quantifies the implications and determinants of factor and output misallocation.
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Library ResourceNovember, 2015India
Growing research and policy interest
focuses on the misallocation of output and factors of
production in developing economies. This paper considers the
possible misallocation of financial loans. Using plant-level
data on the organized and unorganized sectors, the paper
describes the temporal, geographic, and industry
distributions of financial loans. The focus of the analysis
is the hypothesis that land misallocation might be an
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