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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Land markets"”.
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Land tenure, investment, land markets, off-farm employment, and rural welfare in Ethiopia
… few countries in Africa to implement large-scale land titling programmes aiming to improve land related-investments. Since 1995, Ethiopia also has partially liberalised rural land rental markets with the aim of improving the functioning of these markets. Evidence on whether these reforms resulted …
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The effects of the location permit on urban land markets : a case study in the Jabotabek area, Indonesia
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1994.
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From the ground up : an agent-based model of regional structural change
… that exists between farm households in land markets is modelled in a dynamic framework. By modeling land markets in this manner, structural adjustments that occur due to the re-allocation of land among farm household becomes endogenous to the model. The farming simulation was validated …
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Redistribution within a Democratic society : the 'finished business' of he Italian agrarian reform
… that the redistribution of agricultural land to the rural poor is not feasible under democratic regimes. This pessimistic view is based on the slowness and inefficiency of many expropriation and settlement schemes in the developing world, which have fallen victim of the undue influence of …
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Projecting corpland rental rate and asset values : using a hybrid of past approaches to harvest new estimates
… operations has been boosted by increases in cropland values, but lower crop prices mean many are concerned that cropland prices could fall again. This thesis develops an economic model that can be used to project farmland values, cropland rental rates and other variables related to land markets. …
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The case of inclusive gentrification in Casco Viejo : when long-term investment and community interests align
… context. Through an analysis of urban land markets, the social dynamics of neighborhoods with high concentrations of poverty, and the complexities of tenure informality in Latin American cities, this thesis builds the case that neither the speculative models of gentrification that lead …
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The Proliferation of Gated Communities in Ghana: A New Institutionalism Perspective
… reflect exigencies in contexts with privatised land markets, and local planning authorities wield unfettered control over urban planning and residential development. However, in Ghana, where gated communities are rapidly proliferating, the land administration and land-use planning systems are …
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Comparing rural land parcels transferred with all rural land parcels using local real property tax records: a case study in three Virginia counties
Increasingly, information on rural land is needed by land owners, realtors, investors, appraisers, government officials, and researchers to make effective economic and policy decisions involving land. One source of information that could meet this demand is local real property tax records. These …
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Compensation assessment practices in expropriation of customary land rights in Malawi
… various public infrastructure requires a lot of land that is normally expropriated from private and/or customary owners as government may not have it, in return for compensation to cover the expropriatory losses occasioned. Commonly, such compensation is assessed based on market value. While …
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A multilateral design methodology for development contexts : a framework for the Dharavi potters
… compromised structures of governance, corrupt land markets, lack of equitable and humane regulation, and improper and inefficient finance scenarios. While poverty has many dimensions, urban poverty often has a broader meaning of cumulative deprivation, characterized by: squalid living …
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Making land fly : the institutionalization of China's land quota markets and its implications for urbanization, property rights, and intergovernmental politics
This dissertation investigates China's land quota markets, a recent land policy innovation that virtually transfers urbanization permission from the countryside to cities. To circumvent national government's quota restrictions on converting agricultural land to urban land, local governments have …
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Land-incentivized joint ventures for infrastructure development in India
… scale and speed. This thesis examines the use of land-based public finance as one avenue through which a significant portion of this financing might be obtained. In particular, I focus on one type of land-based public financing recently undertaken in India - a land-incentivized joint venture. I …
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Spatial econometric analysis of Louisiana rural real estate values
… a spatial analysis of the dynamics of rural land values in Louisiana. Specifically, spatial econometric procedures and hedonic price analysis were used to evaluate the impact of land characteristics on land prices across rural land markets in Louisiana. Initially, hedonic models were …
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Governing urban land : the political economy of the ULCRA in Mumbai
… I look at the political economy of the Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act (ULCRA) in Mumbai, India. Enacted in 1976, the stated aim of this legislation was to prevent speculation in the urban land market, and to make land available for affordable housing. The legislation imposed a …
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Urban planning practice under neo-customary land tenure
Contemporary discourses on land policy in sub-Saharan African countries have shifted from polarised debates that hitherto promoted formal land administration or romanticised customary tenure systems. Recent policy trends have emphasised the integration of customary and state tenure systems as a …
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An agent-based simulation model of structural change in agriculture
… evolution in distribution of farm sizes, land tenure and financial characteristics, as well as variations in demographic and production characteristics. These issues are often a source of discontent among farm populations as it implies these populations are forced to adapt in a number of …
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Palestine is Throwing a Party and the Whole World is Invited: Private Development and State Building in the Contemporary West Bank
… forms of profit and accumulation in parts of the landscape, is generating new forms of political instability, stability, and political economic relationships between Palestinians, as well as between the West Bank and Israel. Organized around an ethnographic account of the process to create Rawabi, …
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Land use, spatial structure, and regional economic performance: assessing the economic effects of land use planning and regulation
… and structural changes can directly affect land use patterns within the regions, little is known about the inverse: how a change or intervention in land use influences regional economic performance. Does land use planning or regulation promote a region's economic well-being? Alternatively, …
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Theoretical and empirical investigations of excessive congestion as a result of market and planning failures
… traffic congestion in a broader context of land use and economic linkages and contends that optimal congestion relief requires both land use and pricing policies. Congestion is considered excessive when the individually desirable (or privately optimal) amount of auto travel exceeds the …
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Land, history, and housing: Colonial legacies and land tenure in Greater Kuala Lumpur
What land is available for the development of non-market housing in Greater Kuala Lumpur (KL) and how do housing providers attain the rights to them? In Malaysia, the power relations that underlie the relationship between land, housing, and society are entrenched in historically path dependent …
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