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  Ownership and control in Chinese rangeland management since Mao: The case of free riding in Ningxia

  Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1996

  With the introduction of rural reforms in the early 1980s, China broke with its collectivist past and began the arduous transition from a centrally planned to a free market economy.
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  Comments on PDN papers 29a (Abel and Blaikie 1990) and 28b (Scoones 1989)

  Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1990

  This document contains a collection of critical comments by experts working in the field of pastoralism with regard to several PDN papers.
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  Hunter-gatherers, conservation and development: from prejudice to policy reform

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1999

  Communities of present-day or former hunter-gatherers live in scattered communities across the world, although their precise numbers and status are very uncertain. Their often marginalised status and ethnolinguistic diversity has made it hard to articulate their case for land rights outside Australia and North America.
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  Social Exclusion and Land Administration in Orissa, India

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  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. Formidable obstacles still prevent the poor from gaining access to land.
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  Access to Land in Rural India

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999

  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.
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  Formalizing Informality: The Praedial Registration System in Peru

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999

  The Praedial Property Registration system has been presented as an alternative system to traditional registries for the formalization of immovable property. Much of the earlier design and pilot work for the Praedial Property Registration system was done by the Peruvian private organization, Instituto Libertad y Democracia (ILD).
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  Creation of Land Markets in Transition Countries: Implications for the Institutions of Land Administration

  Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999

  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.
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  Land Reforms: Prospects and Strategies

  Land Policy Network, World Bank, 1999

  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.
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  Regulatory policies and reform: the case of land markets

  Land Policy Network, World Bank, 1995

  Chapter list in HTML, chapters are in PDF formatAlthough recent analyses of land markets show a growing concern for policy and regulatory issues, the literature still lacks a robust framework capable of showing how land markets function, the major policy and regulatory constraints to their efficient operations, and the implications for reform.This chapter is a step in that direction.
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  Land Institutions and Land Markets

  Land Policy Network, World Bank, 1998

  Secure property rights to land and well-functioning land rental and sales markets are essential for creating investment incentives, improving the allocation of land, and developing financial markets. Yet regulatory restrictions on land rental and sales and regulatory frameworks providing inadequate tenure security are common.

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