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    The impact of HIV AIDS on land rights: case studies from Kenya

    Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2004
    This study explores the relationship between HIV/AIDS and land rights in Kenya, with a particular focus on women as a socially vulnerable group.
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    Economic reforms and development strategy in Gujarat

    Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2002
    The Gujarat state government has followed a strategy focussed on industrialisation and urbanisation with an open door policy ever since its inception in 1960. Economic reform measures at the centre with an explicit emphasis on trade and industry considerably benefited Gujarat, making its economic performance outstanding.
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    NGOS: fighting poverty, hurting the poor

    Foreign Policy [Journal], 2004
    In this short, polemical article, the author argues that NGO advocacy groups are acting against the interests of the poor and of international development through unreasonable criticism of the World Bank and similar agencies. The author argues that, in a typical situation, the Bank designs a reasonable project, which inevitably has flaws.
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    Copenhagen Consensus: challenge paper on population and migration

    Copenhagen Consensus, 2004
    Many countries receiving migrants are attempting to manage immigration by discouraging potential migrants through tighter controls and restrictions of benefits. This paper argues that this is not an optimal solution. Rather, the overall goal is to create a world in which migration is unnecessary because sufficient opportunity exists at home.
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    Effects of land titling on child health and education

    2004
    This paper analyzes the impact of land titling on child health and education in Argentina.
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    Land and schooling: transferring wealth across generations

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004
    This article, a summary of the book sharing the same title, examines issues around the allocation of land and education within families.
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    Só para o Inglese ver: the policy and practice of tenure reform in Mozambique

    Environment Team, IDS Sussex, 2003
    This paper examines the fundamentals of Mozambican land policy from a livelihoods perspective and identifies considerable potential for improving the sustainability of rural livelihoods and the flexibility and cost effectiveness of policy instruments aimed at increasing security of tenure.The paper examines the impact of the cancellation of private land applications in one province, and argues
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    Introducing geotechnology to developing country land agencies: challenges in Ghana

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    In Accra, as in other cities where rural-to- urban migration has added to the pressure on land, methods for the management and storage of land registry data are inadequate. How can land administration processes be automated through the introduction of information technology (IT) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)? What institutional changes must be put in place?
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    The impact of HIV/AIDS on land: case studies from Kenya, Lesotho and South Africa

    Oxfam, 2002
    The paper presents case studies from Kenya, Lesotho and South Africa in order to examine the impact of HIV/AIDS upon land, and present preliminary policy recommendations.
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    The ‘new’ communities: land tenure reform and the advent of new institutions in Zambézia Province, Mozambique

    Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003
    Recently, new community-level institutions have emerged in Zambézia province, Mozambique, through land rights registration. Numerous rural groups have delimited their acquired land rights and established community-level management systems.

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