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  1. Library Resource
    Document aggregated from Resource Equity Landwise Database
    January, 2002
    Bahamas
  2. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    January, 2002
    Caribbean, Central America, South America, Peru

    What is the condition of women in Peru? This gender profile by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) offers a statistical overview of the condition of urban and rural women with respect to unemployment, status in the workplace, life expectancy and working and living conditions. Poverty is an ongoing concern and half the population continues to subsist below the poverty line. Rural women suffer the most with lower rates of literacy and fewer employment opportunities than urban women and men in general.

  3. Library Resource
    Legislation
    July, 2002
    Dominican Republic

    SUMILLA Rige las obligaciones de los comerciantes en sus operaciones mercantiles y los actos de comercio. Regula los actos de comercio. RESUMEN Establece que son comerciantes todas las personas que ejercen actos de comercio y hacen de él su profesión habitual. Todo comerciante está obligado a tener un Libro Diario que presente, día por día, las operaciones de su comercio, o que resuma por lo menos mensualmente los totales de estas operaciones, siempre que conserve, en este caso, todos los documentos que permitan verificar estas operaciones día por día.

  4. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 2002
    Dominican Republic

    This paper analyzes the effects of insecure property rights over land on the functioning of the land rental market in the Dominican Republic. It shows that insecurity of property rights not only reduces the level of activity of the land rental market, but also causes market segmentation. A principal-agent framework is used to model the utility maximization of both the tenant and the landlord, where the landlord accounts for the risk of losing the land when it is not traded within a narrow local circle of confidence.

  5. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 2002
    Dominican Republic

    This paper analyzes the functioning of land rental markets in the Dominican Republic using a new data set collected specifically to characterize the entire market. We analyze the choice of the landlords and the tenants in the search for the optimal partner. We show how insecure property rights leads to segmentation in the tenancy markets along socio-economic group and hence severely limits access to land for the rural poor.

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2002
    France, Cuba, Albania, Australia, Brazil, Italy

    The recently released Forest Resources Assessment 2000 (FRA 2000) was based on an intensive, five-year effort carried out by FAO in cooperation with national forestry agencies from nearly every country of the world, a large number of research centres and academic institutions, and a number of international, regional and non-governmental organizations.

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