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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"land reforms"”.
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Accuracy or approximation? : measurement strategy for successful land reforms in Rwanda
The recent land tenure reforms in Rwanda have the potential to permanently influence the debate around land titling and clear property rights. In 2005, when Rwanda decided to abandon traditional property rights and to embrace formal rights, least did it know it would transform itself by moving from …
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A Computer-Assisted Teaching and Learning Approach for the Education and Training of Valuation in China
Since the land reforms in China in the 1980s, there have been quite a number of studies about China's new land tenure and the rapidly developing Chinese property market. Although the issue of education and training in support of the land reforms was raised, very few of those studies have focused on …
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How to Overcome Poverty Traps by Education
… via human capital accumulation: subsidies and land reforms. The paid subsidy or the transferred land must generate an income effect sufficiently big in size to enable the household to escape the poverty trap sustainably. The first part deals with subsidy policies. Subsidies contingent to school …
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Policy reforms for smallholder agriculture: an analysis using household data for Vietnam
… chapter provides an overview of agricultural reforms and structural transformation in Vietnam since 1986. The core of the thesis is contained in the next three chapters. Chapter 4 examines the merit of crop diversification in rural Vietnam. Chapter 5 investigates the effect of nonfarm …
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Policy reforms for smallholder agriculture: an analysis using household data for Vietnam
… chapter provides an overview of agricultural reforms and structural transformation in Vietnam since 1986. The core of the thesis is contained in the next three chapters. Chapter 4 examines the merit of crop diversification in rural Vietnam. Chapter 5 investigates the effect of nonfarm …
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An evaluation of environmental sustainability of land reform in Zimbabwe : a case study of Chirumanzu District, Midlands Province
Land reforms are carried out in different countries during different periods for various reasons. For the African countries, land reforms aim to address social and economic iajustices of the colonial period. The economic, social and political dimensions of land reform usually overshadow the …
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The sedentarization of a Bedouin community in Saudi Arabia
… agricultural alternative, with its associated land reforms and development programmes. More broadly, the heritage and shifting meanings of "bedouinism" are scrutinized in this context of rapid change. To these ends, the early chapters aim to: 1) Develop theoretical framework on nomads and …
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INDIGENOUS CONTESTATIONS OF SHIFTING PROPERTY REGIMES: LAND CONFLICTS AND THE NGOBE IN BOCAS DEL TORO, PANAMA
… in power affect indigenous groups’ access to land. Further, it explores the various means that indigenous populations use to legitimate their claims to land in a climate of shifting property regimes, when other differentially empowered claims to land may also be morally and/or legally …
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Law of the landless : the Dalit bid for land redistribution in Gujarat, India
… examines how government's implementation of land reforms in Gujarat, India informs Dalit (i.e., 'Outcaste') activism for land redistribution. It takes as a case study the Navsarjan Trust (or simply Navsarjan), a non-profit group that advocates for Dalit land rights in Surendranagar district, …
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The NGOization of Indian Agricultural Development and Implications for the Agrarian Question
… after independence by not undertaking expansive land reforms and rural redistribution of resources and wealth. Instead, India followed the national bourgeois path of development, liberalizing agricultural production systems based on rural bourgeoisie and foreign interests. This path of …
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A critical evaluation of the efficacy of the willing-seller, willing-buyer concept in the Namibia’s land reform policy and legal framework
Namibia inherited a skewed land redistribution system in favour of a white minority, which necessitated the newly elected government to enact measures to redress this injustice. This study investigated the effectiveness of the willing seller, willing buyer principle and redistribution policies that …
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Rice Production, Income Diversification and Rural Development in Myanmar
… principal export crop. Although previous market reforms and major investment in the agriculture sector have led to an increase in rice production, there have been challenges, such as limited availability of loans, poor infrastructure, application of farm inputs and the quality of seeds. My thesis …
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Rice Production, Income Diversification and Rural Development in Myanmar
… principal export crop. Although previous market reforms and major investment in the agriculture sector have led to an increase in rice production, there have been challenges, such as limited availability of loans, poor infrastructure, application of farm inputs and the quality of seeds. My thesis …
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Prospects for economic growth and poverty reduction in Uganda: a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) analysis
… to the 19 year civil conflict and the communal land ownership which limits agriculture production for food security and improved household incomes. The government could increase the provision of social and physical infrastructure and promote sustainable agriculture by opening up irrigation …