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    The financing of city services in Southern Africa

    Urban LandMark, 2013
    In 2010 the SACN, in conjunction with the WBI and the PPIAF, implemented a project to support the emergence of a sustainable municipal finance market in Southern Africa aimed at promoting more effective city financial planning and management, better credit ratings and improved access to capital markets for infrastructure investment purposes.
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    Maputo and informal land tenure arrangements

    Urban LandMark, 2013
    It is clear that despite the legislation that governs land, people have their own widely accepted and low conflict land management system in urban areas, which involves multiple role-players. This finding is backed up by the negligible occurrence of the DUAT in the two neighbourhoods surveyed.
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    Angola and informal land tenure arrangements: towards an inclusive land policy

    Urban LandMark, 2013
    Angola, like Mozambique, inherited its legal framework from the Portuguese Civil Code, which was not based on a traditional African concept of community occupation under customary law.
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    Maintaining momentum? Civil society and the APRM in Zambia

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) is intended to assist member states to identify and eradicate governance problems. The review of Zambia found positives as well as negatives in the country’s governance practices. Without the participation of civil society and on a very modest budget the APRM is, however, struggling to bring about positive change.
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    Informal land registration in urban areas

    Urban LandMark, 2010
    Informal land registration often arises where people do not have access to the formal state system of land registration. But as the desire and need exist to gain access to urban land, to secure rights in relation to that land and also to trade land, a localised registration system that meets these needs tends to emerge.
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    Municipal rates policies and the urban poor

    Urban LandMark, 2009
    In urban areas, the poor struggle to access well located land in cities and legal, institutional and procedural constraints impede secondary residential property markets from functioning effectively in black townships. The purpose of this paper is to examine how municipal property rates policies are, or could be, used as an instrument to promote access by the poor to urban land markets.
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    Land governance and its influence on access to urban land

    Urban LandMark, 2010
    Millions of black South Africans live in the peri-urban areas. However, government programmes, development planning, and environmental requirements, and the current land and housing markets do not allow poorer people realise their aspirations to access peri-urban land.
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    Urban land development in practice

    Urban LandMark, 2010
    Developers study the property market carefully and then, based on the property cycle, and risk and profit calculations, they acquire land and develop it, with a specific product in mind. Municipalities play a governance role, and are mandated to ensure that the development is in line with government policies and development plans for the area.
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    Land management and democratic governance in the city of Johannesburg

    Urban LandMark, 2008
    Land Management embraces systems of land administration, land use management, land information management, and land taxation. Land management is generally understood in South Africa as the manner in which land is controlled, managed, planned for, utilised and transacted.
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    Working for the many: public services fight inequality

    Oxfam, 2014
    Free public services, such as health and education, are one of the strongest weapons in the fight against inequality. They benefit everyone in society, but the poorest most of all. They mitigate the impact of skewed income distribution, and redistribute revenue by putting ‘virtual income’ into the pockets of the poorest women and men.

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