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  The Muslim Identity and the Politics of Fundamentalism in Kashmir

  Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 1998

  Examines the role of religion in the formation and assertion of political identity in Kashmir. The issue has been highlighted by the rise of Islamic militancy in the 1990s.
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  Making Negotiated Land Reform Work: Initial Experience from Brazil, Colombia, and South Africa

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  Can land reform have a lasting impact on poverty reduction?
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  Deforestation and Land Use on the Evolving Frontier: An Empirical Assessment [in Nicaragua]

  Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 1999

  The advance of the agricultural frontier constitutes the biggest source of deforestation in Central America today. This conversion of tropical forests into agricultural land and pasture is the direct result of individual land use decisions.
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  Liberal Contracts, Relational Contracts and Common Property: Africa and the United States

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998

  The core thesis is that Western neoclassical economics and law (particularly Anglo-American) have a peculiar cultural history that biases Western-trained economists and lawyers against common property systems like those found among Africans and American Indians.
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  Review of tenure terminology

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998

  Short review of major concepts
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  Peasant Logic, Agrarian Policy, Land Mobility, and Land Markets in Mexico

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998

  Mexican rural reform has questioned the role of the peasantry and private national producers in agriculture. The reform followed a neoliberal paradigm for incorporating the nation into the global village.
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  Land Reform, Poverty Reduction and Growth: Evidence from India

  Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, 1998

  In recent times there has been a renewed interest in relationships between redistribution, growth and welfare. Land reforms have been central to strategies to improve the asset base of the poor in developing countries thought their effectiveness has been hindered by political constraints on implementation.
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  L'exclusion sociale au Cameroun

  International Institute for Labour Studies, ILO, 1997

  Analyses the causes of social exclusion in Cameroon, its relationship to land tenure and the political structures through which it is being addressed
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  Differences between farmers and scientists in the perception of soil erosion: a South African case study

  Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor - Indigenous Knowledge WorldWide, 1998

  Over the years agricultural scientists and extension agents have asked themselves why farmers do not take steps to control soil erosion, especially where such measures would appear to be cost-effective.
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  Microdeterminants of Consumption, Poverty, Growth, and Inequality in Bangladesh

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  What are the gains from a better education, more land ownership, or a different occupation in Bangladesh? Do the gains differ in urban and rural areas? Have they remained stable over time? Do household size, family structure, and gender affect well-being?

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