Promoting land tenure security for sustainable peace — lessons on the politics of transformation

Security of Land Tenure Today

The Impact of Land Tenure Security on Housing Investment at Informal Settlements (The Case of Eslamabad Neighborhood, Tehran)

In recent years, tenure security has been one of the main objectives of improvement projects in ‎urban poor settlements. Despite lots of international studies initiated in this field, it has received ‎little attention in Iran. The main aim of this paper is to assess the influence of tenure security on ‎the level of household investment in housing. Survey method is considered as the methodology ...

A tale of two roads: Land tenure, poverty, and politics on the Guatemalan frontier

Agricultural frontiers are hot spots for the most dramatic land cover change in the history of humankind: forest conversion to agriculture. They are also areas of unusually rapid population growth and acute poverty, with scant access to public services and infrastructure. Although a large body of literature explores the determinants of land cover change on the frontier, one issue that has been ...

“the effect of risk aversion on the demand for life insurance: the case of iranian life insurance market”

abstract: about 60% of total premium of insurance industry is pertained?to life policies in the world; while the life insurance total premium in iran is less than 6% of total premium in insurance industry in 2008 (sigma, no 3/2009). among the reasons that discourage the life insurance industry is the problem of adverse selection. adverse selection theory describes a situation where the inf...

Land Governance and Security of Tenure in Developing Countries

3 his White Paper was produced by the Land Tenure and Development Technical Committee, co-chaired by a representative from the Development Policy Directorate in the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs and a representative from the French Development Agency. It is the distillation of numerous debates, discussions and consultations held over the course of 2007 and 2008 between French ...