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[adapted from GTZ] 1999- More than one hundred technical co-operation projects on three continents supported by the various technical departments of GTZ were involved in this discussion on Land Use Planning, paying specific attention to gender and women’s promotion through its pi
Les systèmes de propriété foncière dans les trois pays du Maghreb nous apparaissent aujourd’hui comme marqués par leurs particularités. Cependant pour l’essentiel, leurs différences sont le résultat, tardif, des politiques foncières conduites par les trois Etats depuis l’indépendance. [...
Previous studies of land contracts have focused more on efficiency questions than on determinants of access to land and dynamics of access.
Tries to understand the case for redistributive land reforms. Argues that there is relatively persuasive evidence showing that redistributing land may promote equity as well as efficiency.
Describes (1) the processes of privatization of land management in selected transition countries and (2) the post-privatization changes in land administration institutions which are being crafted to establish land markets.
Examines—from the perspective of transaction costs—factors that constrain access to land for the rural poor and other socially excluded groups in India. They find that: Land reform has reduced large landholdings since the 1950s. Medium-size farms have gained most.
Access to land is deeply important in rural India, where the incidence of poverty is highly correlated with lack of access to land. Mearns provides a framework for assessing alternative approaches to improving access to land by India's rural poor.
Foreign ownership of land has historically been a sensitive political issue,and measures to regulate or restrict the practice in one form or another have figured prominently in national land laws.
The Praedial Property Registration system has been presented as an alternative system to traditional registries for the formalization of immovable property.