sixty-year history of town and country planning in the world, raised a fundamental question: why following the successful models in the process of town and country planning don’t have always similar results? whether, the origin of differences and ambiguities are not in the boundaries, interrelation among the levels of decision making, policy making, uncontrollable democracy in land ownership, i...

Cape York pastoralists and Aborigines have jointly called for state and federal governments to legislate 1⁄4 a form of statutory co-existence of title on pastoral leases. 1⁄4 [A] marathon seven-hour meeting in the Queensland town of Coen last week 1⁄4 sought to address the uncertainty and ® nancial dif® culties ̄ owing to Cape York pastoralists from the Wik people’ s claim to a large area of Cap...

This paper develops a theory in which oligarchic ownership of land or other natural resources impedes entrepreneurship in the manufacturing sector and thereby retards structural change and economic development. We show that, due to oligopsony power of owners in the agricultural labor market, higher ownership concentration is harmful for start-ups by landless, credit-constrained households, whos...

© Association of Christian Economists Abstract: The focus of this paper is on understanding biblical relationships between God, the chosen people of Israel, and the Promised Land. That is done by examining the covenantal relationships between these three entities and considering the economic implications for property ownership, land use, and valuation that result. The objective is to determine ...

This article highlights the contribution of Almarhum Tan Sri Harun M. Hashim in laws relating to land and trusts. The research methodology employed for this study is legal doctrinal, through analysing Sri’s judicial decisions on law reveals that had contributed a vast spectrum knowledge revolving around trusts which line with Islam, culture, values. addressed development principles including ch...

In many developing countries property rights over rural land are maintained through continuous personal use instead of by land titles. We show that removing the link between land use and land rights through the issuance of ownership certificates can result in large-scale adjustments to labor and land allocations. Using the rollout of the Mexican land certification program from 1993 to 2006, we ...