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    Application of regulatory impact analysis methods to proposed regulatory interventions relating to the urban land market

    Urban LandMark, 2007
    Regulatory Impact Analysis of two proposed regulatory interventions in the urban land market: the National Department of Housing’s draft Inclusionary Housing Policy (IHP) and a proposal for the creation of a Housing Development Agency (HDA) was the aim of this consultation.
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    The recognition and enhancement of socially dominated urban land markets

    Urban LandMark, 2008
    The core assumption of the ‘making the markets work for the poor’ approach is that since markets are such powerful and even ubiquitous forces, maximum value in assisting the poor is usually derived from either resolving market failures, or leveraging the operation of existing functioning markets towards the interests of the poor, or enhancing poor people’s effectiveness in par
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    International land banking practices: considerations for Gauteng province

    Urban LandMark, 2007
    Gauteng province experienced steady economic growth in the past decade, but it continues to suffer problems of poverty and inequality. In-migration is increasing and creating great pressure on an already heavily populated province. As a result, land in Gauteng is at a premium. Land is a limited resource and one that is growing in cost.
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    Peri-urban land management assessment and strategy in Metsweding district municipality

    Urban LandMark, 2008
    Pro-poor management of “peri-urban” land in the rapidly growing urban areas of South Africa is an increasingly important issue. The peri-urban areas are formerly “rural” localities that are now, due to the rapid expansion of South Africa’s metros and major towns, directly in the path of urbanisation.
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    Retail centres and township development: a case study

    Urban LandMark, 2010
    The development of shopping centres in township and rural areas in South Africa has increased significantly within the last ten years. This trend has been met with mixed reactions.
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    Africa’s urban land markets: piecing together an economic puzzle

    Urban LandMark, 2010
    Understanding the urban land market is like putting together a puzzle. It requires searching for clues and piecing together bits that do not quite seem to fit; like putting together pieces from different jigsaw puzzles without always knowing whether each piece is exactly in its place or what the final puzzle will look like.
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    Procurement models applied to independent power producer programmes in South Africa

    Energy Research Centre, 2014
    This report addresses questions such as: What is the procurement model in South Africa as it applies to renewable energy (RE) and base load (BL) independent power producer procurement programmes (IPPPP) and how might these be improved? What lessons have been learned in the RE IPPPP? What challenges might the emerging BL IPPP programme face and how might these challenges be addressed?
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    Access to land in poorer parts of towns and cities

    Urban LandMark, 2010
    As people move from one area to another, there is a type of informal trading that takes place as they exchange their dwellings or dwelling spaces. Informal trading refers to transactions that take place outside the officially recognised system of land management and property ownership. One of the aims of the research is to find out more about the transaction process that people engage with.
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    Informal urban land markets and the poor

    Urban LandMark, 2010
    Urban land markets exist in poorer parts of South African cities. Within these informal markets people access, hold and trade land in an organised way that is influenced primarily by social relationships.
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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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