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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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  Uncertainty of Aid Inflows and the Aid-Growth Relationship

  Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade, Nottingham, 1999

  Argues that it is not the level of aid flows per se but the stability of such flows that determines the impact of aid on economic growth. Three measures of aid instability are employed. One is a simple deviation from trend, and measures overall instability. The other measures are based on auto-regressive estimates to capture deviations from an expected trend.
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  Governance and Economic Performance: A Survey

  Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung, Bonn, 1999

  Presents a framework for analyzing the determinants and effects of public governance and a survey of recent theoretical and empirical studies pertaining to developing and transition countries.
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  Aid and Reform in Africa

  Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank, 1999

  Since the early 1980s, virtually every African country has received large amounts of aid aimed at stimulating policy reform. The results have varied enormously. Ghana and Uganda were successful reformers that grew rapidly and reduced poverty. In other countries policies changed little or even got worse.
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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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  Politics and poverty: a background paper for the World Development Report 2000/1

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1999

  Report is a synthesis of the conclusions of a research project on the responsiveness of political systems to poverty reduction prepared for DFIDPolicy issues include: Democracy has differential outcomes for the poorStates create and shape the political opportunities for the poorThere is no reason to expect that decentralisation will be pro-poorThere is a wide range of possib
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  Good governance and anti-corruption: the road forward for Indonesia

  Asian Development Bank Institute, 1999

  Summarizes the recent progress (post 1998) made by Indonesia in combating corruption in Indonesia and outline a course for future action. Considered in the context of the ADB's anti-corruption policy efforts. Includes reports on donor assistance and decentralisation policies

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