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Published: 01 March 2011
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 35–40.
Published: 01 June 2011
... in land, homes, and businesses belonging to poor people who did not technically “own” them. Without deeds or titles, he argued, poor people all over the world are not able to leverage their property for profit. Solving this problem became De Soto’s mission. Hernando De Soto: Let me try an example...
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World Policy Journal (2010) 27 (2): 47–53.
Published: 01 June 2010
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Published: 01 December 2011
Reflecting on property rights at a land conflict mediation session in Blukwa, Ituri. Reflecting on property rights at a land conflict mediation session in Blukwa, Ituri.
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Published: 01 June 2011
To learn more, read Ashwin Parulkar’s “African Land, Up For Grabs,” from the Spring 2011 issue of World Policy Journal. Go to www.bit.ly/land-grab-africa or scan this barcode with your mobile device. —The Editors To learn more, read Ashwin Parulkar’s “African Land, Up For Grabs,” from
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Published: 01 June 2013
White Out: Helicopter pilots must land in deep snow, blinded by blowing powder and fog, creating a potentially deadly environment. White Out: Helicopter pilots must land in deep snow, blinded by blowing powder and fog, creating a potentially deadly environment.
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 24–30.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Lauren Carasik Lawyer Lauren Carasik argues that the World Bank’s private-lending arm, the International Finance Corporation, has stoked a bloody land dispute in Honduras by funding the oligarch-owned agribusiness behind the violence. Now, with Carasik’s help, the Honduran farmers are taking...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 64–68.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of the ability to designate ancestral land for indigenous peoples. Brazilian journalist Fernanda Canofre reports on the politics behind the nation’s land battles, which killed more than 60 people last year. Copyright © 2017 World Policy Institute 2017 indigenous Brazil land rights Michel Temer Dilma...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (4): 24–27.
Published: 01 December 2017
... lands. Following the creation of Israel in 1948 and the subsequent nakba (the mass Palestinian exodus that took place that same year), 13,000 Arab Bedouin in the Naqab were confined in a militarized zone (called sayeg in Hebrew or siyaj in Arabic), separated from both Jewish and other Arab...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (1): 103–110.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Whose land is this, anyway? Whose land is this, anyway? ...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 99–105.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Maurizio Bongioanni Maurizio Bongioanni is an Italian journalist who contributes to Altreconomia and other publications. He writes about environmental and social issues and has produced three documentaries about excessive land use in Italy. © World Policy Institute 2014 2014 World...
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World Policy Journal (2001) 18 (3): 33–40.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Masaru Tamamoto Copyright © 2001 World Policy Institute 2001 M a sa ru Yam am oto is a senior fe llo w o f the W orld P o licy In stitu te. H e resides in Yokoham a, J a p a n .
A Land Without Patriots
The Yasukuni Controversy and Japanese Nationalism...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 49–55.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Kenneth E. Barden “Rising seas, drowning islands.” “Rising seas, drowning islands.” © World Policy Institute 2011 2011 World Policy Institute Bonriki, Kiribati—Approaching Bonriki airport for a landing, the triangular coral atoll of Tarawa looks very much like the sails...
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Published: 01 March 2013
Members of a Philippine marine landing team prepare for deployment in the wake of the beheading of 15 marines in southwestern Mindanao. The security and economic stability of Mindanao always deteriorates in the wake of any armed clashes between government forces and guerrillas fighting
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (4): 70–80.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Reflecting on property rights at a land conflict mediation session in Blukwa, Ituri. Reflecting on property rights at a land conflict mediation session in Blukwa, Ituri. ...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (2): 79–87.
Published: 01 June 2012
... massive billboards display portraits of the high-end residential and commercial wonderland intended for the plot. In 2007, the Cambodian government handed Boeung Kak Lake to Phnom Penh-based Shukaku Inc. in the form of a 99-year lease, which allows the company to clear the land for economic...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 1–4.
Published: 01 June 2016
... of Africa’s leading NGOs. Although redistribution and allocation of land for housing failed to yield the desired results, one initiative remains that could resolve Nigeria’s housing crisis—part two of El-Rufai’s housing plan, a land swap policy. Under this scheme, the government will grant land...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (1): 86–107.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Khadija Sharife © World Policy Institute 2015 2015 World Policy Institute London—James Carter, an investor who sank over $100,000 in several distressed ‘‘assets’’—carbon credits, land, palm oil—believes the companies had at least the appearance of legitimacy, or so the brokers...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 3–7.
Published: 01 June 2017
... application of criminal law will only generate further resentment. A national and international movement has risen to oppose the criminalization of the Mapuche conflict, with a particular focus on the designation of acts of land reclamation as terrorism. The use of the anti-terrorist law has come...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 120–129.
Published: 01 June 2015
... percent of the figure just three years earlier, and in the final weeks of the war, barely any land at all was under cultivation and accessible to whatever population was still controlled by the American-backed government. As I wrote in one of my first dispatches to The New York Times : Photo: Africa...
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