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Leasehold estate
About: Leasehold estate is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1589 publications have been published within this topic receiving 21480 citations. The topic is also known as: leasehold & tenancy.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that there is relatively persuasive evidence showing that redistributing land may promote equity as well as efficiency and suggest that it is, nevertheless, unclear, given that all forms of redistribution cost money and bureaucratic and political capital, that redistribution is the best way to redistribute.
Abstract: The paper is in two parts. The first part tries to understand the case for redistributive land reforms. We argue that there is relatively persuasive evidence showing that redistributing land may promote equity as well as efficiency. We then suggest that it is, nevertheless, unclear, given that all forms of redistribution cost money as well as bureaucratic and political capital, that redistributing land is the best way to redistribute. The second part of the paper takes as given that we want to redistribute land, and discusses strategies for achieving such redistribution. We argue that, for the most part, redistribution should be based on a uniform land ceiling and not discriminate between different types of landlords but violations of the land ceiling may be permitted if the buyer is willing to pay a high enough price. We also argue that land reform programs should be accompanied by agricultural extension programs and emergency income support programs. We argue in favor of allowing renting out redistributed land but restricting sales of such land. Finally we argue that market-assisted land reforms and tenancy reforms are possible alternative strategies where more traditional (coercive) land reform is not an option, but have significant disadvantages which should be taken seriously.
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TL;DR: A conspicuous weakness in this argument is that it begs the question whether a land-tenure system of more or less equal holdings best promotes agricultural development as discussed by the authors, and it is impossible to say how a given income distribution influences landlord consumption, saving, and investment decisions unless more is known about the social and political institutions of a given rural society.
Abstract: Studies of Asian agriculture have argued that land-tenure systems have often retarded agricultural development, in that unequal land distribution and widespread tenancy have given peasants little power to resist landlord efforts to squeeze and rack-rent them. Because landlords have been disinclined to devote their wealth and energies to improving the land, agriculture has stagnated and peasants have became poorer. A conspicuous weakness in this argument is that it begs the question whether a land-tenure system of more or less equal holdings best promotes agricultural development. The land-tenure system influences income distribution in agriculture, but it is impossible to say how a given income distribution influences landlord consumption, saving, and investment decisions unless more is known about the social and political institutions of a given rural society.
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TL;DR: In this article, household data from Nicaragua are used to show that the choice of cultivation technique depends on farmers' tenure status even when techniques are observable and contractible, and that tree crops are less likely to be grown on rented than on owner-cultivated plots.
Abstract: The choice of cultivation techniques is a key determinant of agricultural productivity and has important consequences for income growth and poverty reduction in developing countries. Household data from Nicaragua are used to show that the choice of cultivation technique depends on farmers' tenure status even when techniques are observable and contractible. In particular, tree crops are less likely to be grown on rented than on owner-cultivated plots. Further evidence indicates that the result follows from landlords inability or unwillingness to commit to long-term tenancy contracts rather than from agency costs due to risk aversion or limited liability.
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01 Jan 1949
TL;DR: The economic, social and political importance of holding land native systems of tenure was discussed in this paper, with a focus on the economic, political and social importance of the systems of holding and holding land.
Abstract: The economic, social and political importance of systems of holding land native systems of tenure Malaya Malaya (continued) Ceylon Cyprus - with a note on pre-emption Zanzibar Kenya Tanganyika - with a note on Nyarubanja tenure Nyasaland norther Rhodesia - with a note on the taxation of undeveloped land Uganda Nigeria the Gold Coast - including a note on the West African lands committee of 1912, and a note on litigation and registration Sierra Leone Mauritius and Fiji Tonga the British West Indies land and Muhammadan law freehold versus leasehold tenure the system of revisable rents the pledging and mortgaging of land land titles and registration changes in native land law appendix
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TL;DR: In this paper, a method for providing multi-tenant services includes receiving a request from a user, establishing tenancy information for the user, wherein the tenancy information is selected which corresponds to a tenant of the user from among multiple tenants.
Abstract: A method for providing multi-tenant services includes receiving a request from a user, establishing tenancy information for the user, wherein the tenancy information is selected which corresponds to a tenant of the user from among multiple tenants, customizing the request according to the tenancy information established for the user, forwarding the request to an application that is not multi-tenant aware, receiving results of the request from the application, customizing the results according to the tenancy information established for the user and corresponding to the tenant of the user, and returning customized results to the user.
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