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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"Expropriation"”.
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The effect of land expropriation without compensation on mortgagees
… amendmend to the property clause that allows for expropriation without compensation. In this regard, the aim of the study is to examine the potential effect of land expropriation without compensation on mortgagees. To achieve this objective, an analysis of the laws and legal mechanisms regulating …
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Expropriation or controlling one’s private assets : does it make a difference?
Expropriation and Control of Use are two very important principles when dealing with possession and use. The aim of this dissertation is to understand better the differences between expropriation and control of use; and to gain a better knowledge of one’s right of compensation, if any, when …
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Compensation assessment practices in expropriation of customary land rights in Malawi
… existing compensation valuation practices for expropriation presupposes private property and functional property markets, thereby realising inadequate compensation for customary land. By doing so, the study analyses applicability of indemnity and taker's gain compensation theories and …
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The history of the expropriation of the American oil companies in Mexico
<p>The Six Year Plan under President Cardenas had a positive structure built on the agrarian movement, the cooperative movement and the educational movement. In order to give the Mexicans an increasing share of the country's wealth, President Cardenas believed that the "process of building …
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The Maledu and Baleni cases impact on customary communities vulnerability to expropriation
… may have rendered them more vulnerable to the expropriation of their land. Given the Maledu and Baleni decisions, this research considers the position of customary communities whose land is subject to a mining or prospecting right, or where an application for mining or prospecting rights looms. …
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Globalization, land expropriation, and community resistance: a case study in Wanbao community, Miaoli County, Taiwan
The Land Expropriation Act of Taiwan, enacted in the year 2000, has been abused by the local authorities without proper oversight from the public, and this abuse has often caused displacements without reasonable compensation. The abuse of land expropriation can be devastating to those who live in …
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China Dispossession Watch: Making Visible the Human Costs of Forced Land Expropriation in Urbanizing China
This thesis critically examines China's land expropriation regime through a mixed-methods approach that integrates ethnographic investigation, quantitative economic analysis, and practical interventions developed in collaboration with affected communities. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the …
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Framing land expropriation: a comparative content analysis of SABC and eNCA's coverage of the LEWC public hearings
… amending Section 25 of the Constitution for land expropriation without compensation, a deeply political issue in post- apartheid South Africa. Using thematic content analysis of YouTube news bulletins, the study identifies each channel's framing techniques and dominant themes. Findings reveal that …
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Between the Peasants and the Leviathan: The Expropriation and Spontaneous Seizure of American-Owned Agricultural Property in Mexico, 1934-1941
… to compensate American landowners and halt the expropriation of American-owned estates. Foot-dragging, evasion, and noncompliance enabled Mexican officials to outmaneuver their U.S. counterparts and obtain substantial economic assistance from Washington in exchange for compensating American …
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Resistance to state-driven land expropriation in northern Uganda: Counter-hegemonic imagination and the reconstruction of identity, authority, territory, and property
… action in response to state-driven land expropriation in the Acholi-Madi border region of northern Uganda. Based on a two-year period of archival inquiry, interviews, activist research and participant observation, the dissertation examines the case of Apaa, where a large-scale struggle …
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A comparative analysis of perceptions on land expropration by commercial and emerging farmers in Limpopo Province of South Africa
… program has led to the initiation of the Land expropriation in line with Section 25 of the South African Constitution. The purpose of the Land Expropriation Act is to expedite the process of giving back the land to the rightful owners, taking note that most of the current landowners have …
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Mandated to Report: The Role of the Nationalist Press in Reporting Zionist Land Expropriation and Labor Conquest in Palestine During the 1930s
<p>Print media has been an indelible component of the Palestinian National Movement – playing a critical role in many episodes of its fraught history. Time and again it has formed the discursive and rhetorical spear of various ideological movements and factions, utilizing iconography, poetry, and …
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The threat of expropriation in commercial contracts entered into with states : lessons from the case of Lap Green Networks of Libya and the Zambian government
… with foreign firms, increasing the risk of expropriation and thereby reducing the volume of FDI. An example of a regime change that resulted in the cancellation of contracts with foreign firms and the expropriation of property rights that had been acquired as a result of those contracts, is …
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Attaining Justice through ‘Just and Equitable Compensation': A critique of South African courts' current approach to section 25(3) of The Constitution, and determining whether ‘Expropriation without Compensation' may be considered ‘Just and Equitable'
… and equitable compensation and the potential 'expropriation without compensation' amendment to section 25 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa1 has been a contentious issue in South Africa over the past year. Owing to colonialism and the apartheid regime, secured land rights and …
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The anticommons problem in China’s landownership system and its reform
… Based on this knowledge, the China government’s expropriation power is economically justified. The logic is that the traditional absolute property right or privatization conception should yield to the more realistic economic benefits, and China’s long-lasting economic miracle endorses this …
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The development of South African investment protection law – legal protection of foreign investments under the Protection of Investment Act no. 22 of 2015 with special regard to indirect expropriation
… determine a significantly narrower concept of expropriation, whilst lacking provisions regarding compulsory payment of compensation in terms of indirect measures, and a limited concept of full protection and security. These stipulations are essentially incompatible with the requirements of the …
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Towards an Optimal Legal Framework and Methodology for Quantification and Valuation of Damages in Claims Arising From Breach of the Fair and Equitable Treatment Standard of Investment Protection Under International Investment Law
… of the process of calculating damages in non- expropriation cases and that of the investment regime, this thesis set out to develop an optimal framework and methodology for quantification and valuation of damages in claims arising from breach of the fair and equitable treatment standard of …
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