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    The Impact of Globalization on Pre-Industrial, Technologically Quiescent Economies: Real Wages, Relative Factor Prices and Commodity Price Convergence in the Third World Before 1940

    National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 1999
    Paper uses a new pre-1940 Third World data base documenting real wages and relative factor prices to explore their determinants. There are three possibilities: external price shocks, factor endowment changes, and technological change. As the paper's title suggests, technological change is an unlikely explanation.
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    The Reform of Rural Land Markets in Latin America and the Caribbean: Research, Theory, and Policy Implications

    Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991
    Summarizes recent research (to 1991) on rural land markets in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region and on the relationship between this research and broader land tenure issues.
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    Land Tenancy in Asia, Africa and Latin America: A Look to the Past and a View to the Future

    Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999
    Literature review, focusing on recent and contemporary tenancy structures in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Tenancy for purposes of this review is broadly defined to include different leasing arrangements such sharecropping, labor tenancy, fixed cash rentals, and reverse leasing.
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    The reconstruction of rural institutions

    Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives, 1996
    At the end of the 1980s, most agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean shared the following features: an over-protected agricultural sector; strong intervention from the state; excessive regulations and obstacles to interactions with other economic agents; a static land market; and a bimodal type of productive organization, i.e.
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    Tenurial reforms and agricultural development in Vietnam

    Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives, 1996
    Socialist Republic of Viet Nam is undergoing a process of transformation from a centrally planned economy to a market-oriented economy.
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    Cultural issues in land information systems

    Land Reform, Land Settlement and Cooperatives, 1996
    Considers the cultural dimension of applying the land information system (LIS) concept to lands held under customary land tenure. The article recognizes that the LIS concept has been developed primarily to serve the needs of countries with a western-style land market where individual land rights are the norm.
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    Access to land via Land Rental Markets

    Land Policy Network, World Bank, 1999
    Previous studies of land contracts have focused more on efficiency questions than on determinants of access to land and dynamics of access. By looking closely at the question of access to land, the authors conclude:land rental contracts more friendly to the poor than land sales markets to access land.
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    An ecological and historical perspective on agricultural development in Southeast Asia

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2000
    Looks at location, natural resources, and different policies toward the elite's preemption of unused land shaped the historical development of different agrarian structures across Southeast Asia, conditioning agricultural growth performance until today.Aims to give a broad perspective on the process by which different agrarian structures developed in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand, alo
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    Land tenure, investment, and agricultural production in Nicaragua

    Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 2000
    While there is a consensus in Nicaragua that the security of property rights is a fundamental constraint to the long run development of the agricultural sector, there has been little empirical analysis to date of the relationship between land rights and rural economic activity.Using household level data collected between December, 1997– April, 1998 within the regions of Leon and Chinandega (kno
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    Land management programme in Tanzania

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2000
    Evaluation of LAMP in different contexts:broader change processesdevelopment thinkingcomparative analysis of different conditions of LAMP in the four districts it has been implemented inFindings include: recommending that the programme shifts focus from considering its core as natural resources management to one of support to the empowerment, mobilisation and capaci

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