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  1. Library Resource
    March, 2015
    Mali, Western Africa

    Urban and peri-urban land markets in rapidly expanding West African cities operate within and across different coexisting tenure regimes and involve complex procedures to obtain or make land available for housing. Because a structured framework lacks for the analysis of such systems, this book proposes a systemic approach and applies it to Bamako and its surrounding areas.

  2. Library Resource
    August, 2015
    Rwanda

    Land markets play a limited role in
    subsistence economies with low skill-intensity of
    agricultural cultivation, equally distributed land
    endowments and little movement out of agriculture to join
    the non-farm economy. But, as the economy starts to
    diversify, the scope for efficiency-enhancing land transfers
    beyond immediate kin and for longer than just one season
    assumes significantly greater importance. Lease markets can

  3. Library Resource
    November, 2015
    Africa, Western Africa

    This paper presents early evidence from
    the first large-scale randomized-controlled trial of a land
    formalization program. The study examines the links between
    land demarcation and investment in rural Benin in light of a
    model of agricultural production under insecure tenure. The
    demarcation process involved communities in the mapping and
    attribution of land rights; cornerstones marked parcel
    boundaries and offered lasting landmarks. Consistent with

  4. Library Resource
    November, 2015
    Mauritania

    Mauritania is a vast country covering
    over a million square kilometers, where a relatively small
    population of 3.5 million people lives on just one-fifth of
    the country’s total area. With extremely advanced
    desertification, the country is particularly vulnerable to
    the impact of climate change and other external shocks. The
    main sources of income in Mauritania are agriculture, which
    is either irrigated or rain-fed, and livestock. This is

  5. Library Resource
    June, 2016

    Land rights and the systems that
    administer them can vary significantly across the world and
    within countries (World Bank 2003). For a number of reasons,
    land rights may be unclear or insecure. Securing land rights
    plays an important role in driving economic growth and
    poverty reduction. In recent years there has been increasing
    awareness of the relevance of land tenure issues to food
    security, climate change, rapid urbanization, informality,

  6. Library Resource
    July, 2016
    Rwanda

    Rwanda's completion, in 2012/13, of
    a land tenure regularization program covering the entire
    country allows the use of administrative data to describe
    initial performance and combine the data with household
    surveys to quantify to what extent and why subsequent
    transfers remain informal, and how to address this. In
    2014/15, annual volumes of registered sales ranged between
    5.6 percent for residential land in Kigali and 0.1 percent

  7. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Uganda

    This is the second part of land studies
    on Northern Uganda designed to inform the Peace, Recovery
    and Development Plan (PRDP). This second part of the study,
    undertaken during the second half of 2007 in the Lango and
    Acholi regions, builds on the first phase conducted in 2006
    in the Teso region. This second study has been designed to
    present a more quantitative analysis of trends on disputes
    and claims on land before displacement, during displacement

  8. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Africa, Rwanda

    Although increased global demand for
    land has led to renewed interest in African land tenure, few
    models to address these issues quickly and at the required
    scale have been identified or evaluated. The case of
    Rwanda's nation-wide and relatively low-cost land
    tenure regularization program is thus of great interest.
    This paper evaluates the short-term impact (some 2.5 years
    after completion) of the pilots undertaken to fine-tune the

  9. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    India

    Despite strong beliefs that property
    titling and registration will enhance credit access,
    empirical evidence in support of such effects remains scant.
    The gradual roll-out of computerization of land registry
    systems across Andhra Pradesh's 387 sub-registry
    offices allows us to combine quarterly administrative data
    on credit disbursed by all commercial banks for an
    eleven-year period (1997-2007) aggregated to the

  10. Library Resource
    March, 2012

    Secure property rights are considered a
    key determinant of economic development. However, evaluation
    of the causal effects of land titling is a difficult task.
    Since 2004, the Brazilian government, through a program
    called "Papel Passado," has issued titles to more
    than 85,000 families and has the goal to reach 750,000.
    Another topic in public policy that is crucial for
    developing economies is child labor force participation. In

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