TAXATION POLICY AND LAND REFORMS IN COLONIAL MALAYA

Land-Tenure Policy Reforms

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Land Policy Reforms

Healthcare Policy Administration and Reforms in Post-Colonial Kenya and Challenges for the Future

The underlying vision for health developments and reforms in Kenya as detailed in the ongoing 1994 Kenya Health Policy Framework Paper is to provide “quality health care that is acceptable, affordable and accessible to all”. This paper discusses the reforms in the healthcare policy in Kenya by evaluating the health sector developments in the post-colonial era. Key issues, trends, challenges and...

The Struggles Continue: Evolving Land Policy and Tenure Reforms in Africa - Recent Policy and Implementation Processes

In the 1990s, official land policy debates in Southern Africa have become focused on two strategies: promoting freehold land markets to replace so-called customary tenure zones and expanding ‘commercial farming’ through market mechanisms. These two strategies are expected to resolve the escalating land problems. Yet, in the guise of promoting sustainable land use, environmental care, new agricu...

Land Reforms: Prospects and Strategies

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 redistribut...