The Government of Zambia is embarking on an ambitious program of legal and administrative reforms in land policy. Although the need to liberalize the land market is universally shared, the ideas on how to accomplish this transformation are not.
Application form for conversion of customary tenure to leasehold tenure
The Lands Act, Chapter 184 of the law of Zambia
1995
[An Act to provide for the continuation of Leaseholds and leasehold tenure; to provide for the continued vesting of land in the Presindent and alienation of land by the President; to provide for the statutory recognition and continuation of customary tenure ; to provide for the conversion of customary tenure into leasehold tenure....]
Esta tesis tiene como tema central la historia del Comando Quintín-Lame, grupo en armas, dentro del contexto de la recuperación de la hacienda López Adentro en el norte del Cauca, Colombia .Se hace énfasis especial en la estructura de las relaciones interculturales practicadas por los distintos autores desde sus diferentes visiones culturales.
This paper examines the role of the extended family on investments in children, usingdata from a retrospective survey of three generations in the rural Philippines.
This paper examines the role of the extended family on investments in children, using data from a retrospective survey of three generations in the rural Philippines. Econometric results show that interactions between grandparent characteristics and child gender significantly affect the distribution of proposed land bequests between sons and daughters.
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