Covid-19 had a profound impact on South Africa, not only in relation to its health system but also matters such as access land and adequate housing. This note discusses, amongst other, the case law focusing evictions housing reported during 2020. The indicates that restitution remains complex matter is going be resolved soon. proposed 2020 amendments Constitution of Republic 1996 Expropriation ...

Understanding the formation mechanism of farmers’ farmland value expectations not only helps to evaluate land resource allocation behaviors, but also enables government create better policies that can effectively guide and manage expectations. Based on cross-sectional data from 2015 China Household Finance Survey (CHFS) rural residents, we used quantitative analysis models identify effect expro...

This article reconceptualises the Marxist notion of ‘primitive accumulation’, examining how settler colonialism and anti-Black racial domination structure American capitalism. The analysis intervenes in theorisations primitive accumulation both critiques neoliberalism growing literature on It shows particular appropriations context not only treat concept as, ultimately, external to core logic c...

Abstract In this paper, an attempt will be made to discuss the likely context for pre-plague indications of expropriation and its limits. There is plentiful evidence active land market in medieval villages by end thirteenth century, most some time earlier. Fluctuation rate buying selling coincided with difficult harvest years suggests a link between impecunious peasant sellers wealthier buyers....

This document contains the online appendices for “Growth in the Shadow of Expropriation.” Section I contains the proofs of all propositions. Section II extends the benchmark model to incorporate exogenous productivity growth. Section III considers the case in which the capitalists are also political insiders and therefore enter the incumbent’s utility function. Section IV considers the near suf...

This study validates some aspects of agency theory, resource dependency and organization theory referring to the Sri Lankan context. The sample includes 205 non-financial listed firms prepared in a balanced panel for six years. Implications are provided insufficiency financial variables predicting corporate distress. Financial together with governance jointly enhance predictive power Less likelih...

International investment law protects investors from unlawful expropriation of investments by the host state. This article focuses on problems protection against such actions state and possible application right to property which is established in European Convention Human Rights as defence mechanism. The purpose this study assess whether, cases investments, may effectively defend before nation...

Abstract This article analyses what is widely known as the police powers exemption found in modern international investment agreements, with a focus on mega-regional trade and agreements. It explores its legal nature requirements, burden of proof issues compensation. In an attempt to curb (indirect) expropriation claims, carves out non-discriminatory regulatory measures from scope indirect such...

Current literature views the punishment of free-riders as an under-supplied public good, carried out by individuals at a cost to themselves. It need not be so: often, free-riders’ property can be forcibly appropriated by a coordinated group. This power makes punishment profitable, but it can also be abused. It is easier to contain abuses, and focus group punishment on free-riders, in societies ...