Debates on Land Titling
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Effects of land titling on child health.
This paper examines the impact of urban land titling on child health. We hypothesize that land titling may translate into positive effects on health through its impact on housing investments and household structure. To address selection concerns, we take advantage of a natural experiment of land occupation in a suburban area of Buenos Aires, Argentina, that ensures that the allocation of proper...
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This paper analyzes the choice of the socially optimal titling system assuming rational individual choices about recording, assurance and registration decisions. It focuses on the enforcement of property rights on land under private titling and the two existing public titling systems, recording and registration. When the reduction in the expected costs of forfeiture balances the higher cost of ...
متن کاملLand titling and socioeconomic development in the South Pacific
The controversy over the relative merits of customary and individual land tenure in Papua New Guinea and other island states of the South Pacific continues unabated. Steven Gosarevski, Helen Hughes and Susan Windybank (2004b) (hereafter cited Hughes as the senior author) stirred up a hornet’s nest by asserting ‘communal ownership has not permitted any country to develop. In Papua New Guinea, wh...
متن کاملProperty Rights for the Poor: Effects of Land Titling
Secure property rights are considered a key determinant of economic development. The evaluation of the causal effects of property rights, however, is a difficult task as their allocation is typically endogenous. To overcome this identification problem, we exploit a natural experiment in the allocation of land titles. In 1981, squatters occupied a piece of land in a poor suburban area of Buenos ...
متن کامل‘Indigenous Peoples’ and land: Comparing communal land titling and its implications in Cambodia and Laos
In 2001 a new Land Law was adopted in Cambodia. It was significant because – for the first time – it recognised a new legal category of people, ‘Indigenous Peoples’ or chuncheat daoem pheak tech in Khmer, and it also introduced the legal concept of communal land rights to Cambodia. Indigenous Peoples are not mentioned in the 1993 constitution of Cambodia or any legislation pre-dating the 2001 L...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Environmental Protection
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2328-5680
DOI: 10.11648/j.ajep.20150404.12