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Poverty reduction through land transfers? The World Bank’s titling reforms and the making of “subsistence” agriculture
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In this article, the authors build on an analysis of close to twenty years of World Bank reports on land reform in four post-communist countries to show how and why the transfer of land and commercialization end up contradicting rather than mutually supporting each other.About:
This article is published in World Development.The article was published on 2020-11-01. It has received 25 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Poverty & Land reform.read more
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Alleviating multi-dimensional poverty through land transfer: Evidence from poverty-stricken villages in China
TL;DR: In this article, a Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans growth model of the agricultural sector, including land transfer characteristics, was constructed to investigate the theoretical basis of the land transfer impact on multi-dimensional poverty, under a steady equilibrium.
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Post-Soviet smallholders between entrepreneurial farming and diversification. Livelihood pathways in rural Moldova
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the role of farming in smallholders' livelihoods two decades after land privatisation and identify two groups of smallholders: peasants and entrepreneurs.
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Role of education in poverty reduction: macroeconomic and social determinants form developing economies
TL;DR: In this article, an econometric estimation to measure the role of education on poverty reduction was made using time series data from 1980 to 2018, using the Engle-Granger two-step co-integration technique, to obtain the economic long-term and short-term dynamic characteristics of education in reducing poverty rate in this era.
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The suitability and sustainability of governance structures in land consolidation under institutional change: A comparative case study
TL;DR: In this paper, a synthetic framework linking the institutional environment, governance structures and incentives of actors is proposed to examine the suitability and sustainability of different governance structures under changes in the institutional environments through the lens of land reallocation in land consolidation.
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The Impact of Land Transfer on Vulnerability as Expected Poverty in the Perspective of Farm Household Heterogeneity: An Empirical Study Based on 4608 Farm Households in China
TL;DR: In this article , the authors employ the propensity value matching technique to compare the effects of the land transfer on the future alleviation of poverty among farm households, based on the vulnerability as expected poverty, using data from 4608 household tracking surveys.
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TL;DR: Agriculture is a vital development tool for achieving the Millennium Development Goal that calls for halving by 2015 the share of people suffering from extreme poverty and hunger as mentioned in this paper, which is the overall message of this year's World Development Report (WDR), the 30th in the series.
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The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History
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TL;DR: In this paper, North and Thomas provide a unified explanation for the growth of Western Europe between 900 A. D. and 1700, providing a general theoretical framework for institutional change geared to the general reader.
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The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History.
TL;DR: In this article, North and Thomas provide a unified explanation for the growth of Western Europe between 900 A. D. and 1700, providing a general theoretical framework for institutional change geared to the general reader.
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Rising Global Interest in Farmland: Can It Yield Sustainable and Equitable Benefits?
TL;DR: The lack of reliable information has made it difficult to understand what has been actually happening as discussed by the authors, which has raised serious concerns about the danger of neglecting local rights and other problems.
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Land policies for growth and poverty reduction
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the importance of land policies in support of development, and poverty reduction, by setting out the results of recent research in a way that is accessible to a wide audience.