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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Tenure Insecurity"”.
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Tenure Insecurity and Post-Disaster Housing: Case Studies in New Orleans and Tegucigalpa
… post]disaster housing assistance was affected by tenure insecurity. In the case of post]Katrina New Orleans, the Road Home, which provided monies for rebuilding, faced difficulties in allocating its aid because of heirship titles, a form of tenure insecurity to which the United States has often …
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Developing and initial testing of pro-poor prenuptial agreements as a new land tenure tool to secure rights in urban State-Subsidized Housing
… prenuptial agreement as an innovative land tenure tool to secure rights in urban subsidized housing. The model tested is confined to prenuptial agreements under the Marriage Act, but is relevant to other cohabitation or marital agreements that could be used to secure social tenure arising …
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Assessing land administration systems with their legal frameworks: the case of peri-urban land in Ekiti State, Nigeria
The coexistence of customary and statutory law, tenure, and administration in peri-urban areas of sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries such as Nigeria may cause conflict and tension. An efficient and effective land administration systems (LASs) and legal frameworks are crucial for ensuring pro-poor …
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Private game farms and the tenure security of workers and dwellers in Cradock - implications for tenure reform in South Africa
… conversions to game farming have had for the tenure security of farm workers and -dwellers in Cradock, Eastern Cape. At the heart of the thesis is the extreme land question of the semi-arid areas. At the empirical level, the thesis situates the Cradock farm conversion trend within the land …
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Land tenure security and resource use in Peruvian Amazonia: A case study of the Ucayali region
… the assumption that titles signal secure land tenure. I question the presumption that titles are equivalent to secure tenure and consequently shift the focus of study to the issue of land tenure security: under what economic conditions do we expect land tenure insecurity, what are the real …
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Essays on the Political Behavior of Economic Informality and Public Goods
… housing informality of infrastructure and tenure insecurity, and posit that the former generates collective interests and demand for the state. Using a panel survey of Indonesian households from 1993 to 2014 with approximately 30,000 observations, I find that those in housing lacking piped …
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A Framework for Promoting Socio-Economic Factors to Achieve Sustainable Mass Housing in Abuja, Nigeria.
… constraints, access to infrastructure, tenure insecurity, and governance limitations significantly influence housing satisfaction, adaptation practices, and long-term sustainability outcomes. The study reveals persistent disconnections between housing policy intentions and lived …
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Measuring tenure security of the rural poor using pro-poor land tools: A case study of Itaji-Ekiti, Ekiti State Nigeria
… of rural dwellers by ensuring the security of tenure of the rural poor. This led researchers and nongovernmental organisations to investigate the security of tenure of the urban and rural poor in developing countries. To improve the security of tenure of the rural poor, many developing …
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Implications of conservation agriculture narratives on environmental conservation in Chibombo,Zambia
… towards agro-forestry mainly attributed to land tenure insecurity and length of time required to realise benefits and also because farmers have continued to expand agricultural land. The climate change and adaptation narrative linked CA to environmental conservation through better soil moisture …
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The human dimensions of restoring degraded forests and lands : case of Cameroon
… are felt at multiple levels in terms of food insecurity, livelihoods, and biodiversity loss. In response, efforts to restore degraded forests and lands is gaining momentum at the global and regional levels through ambitious commitments. However, the challenge is to translate these commitments …
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Land tenure, investment, land markets, off-farm employment, and rural welfare in Ethiopia
… empirically the relationship between land tenure issues on one hand, and land-related investments and the functioning of rural land and labour markets on the other. It also analyses the relationship between participation in land rental markets and household welfare. Detailed descriptive …
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Three essays in development economics
… policy goals. I estimate the impact of insecure tenure using the past history of land shifts as an instrument for current tenure insecurity, and find that an increase in the probability of losing the current plot yields a decrease in agricultural inputs and production of around one standard …