Power, Property Rights, and Economic Development
Power, Property Rights, and Economic Development

Author: Mohammad Dulal Miah

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-11-19

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 9811327637

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This book presents a critical reassessment of theories of property rights, in response to conflicts and competition between different groups, and the state. It does so by taking an institutional political perspective to analyse the structures of property rights, with a focus on a series of case studies from Bangladesh. In doing so, the book highlights the importance of property rights for economic growth, why developing countries often fail to design property rights conducive for economic development, and the strategies required for designing an efficient structure of rights. Since property rights falls within the domain of Law and Economics, the book ventures to explain legal issues from an economic perspective, resulting in empirical analysis that comprises both legal and non-legal cases.

Land Solutions for Climate Displacement
Land Solutions for Climate Displacement

Author: Scott Leckie

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-05-23

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 1134485050

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The threat of climate displacement looms large over a growing number of countries. Based on the more than six years of work by Displacement Solutions in ten climate-affected countries, academic work on displacement and climate adaptation, and the country-level efforts of civil society groups in several frontline countries, this report explores the key contention that land will be at the core of any major strategy aimed at preventing and resolving climate displacement. This innovative and timely volume coordinated and edited by the Founder of Displacement Solutions, Scott Leckie, examines a range of legal, policy and practical issues relating to the role of land in actively addressing the displacement consequences of climate change. It reveals the inevitable truth that climate displacement is already underway and being tackled in countries such as Bangladesh, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and the United States, and proposes a series of possible land solution tools that can be employed to protect the rights of people and communities everywhere should they be forced to flee the places they call home.

The Political Economy of Rural Poverty in Bangladesh
The Political Economy of Rural Poverty in Bangladesh

Author: Kamal Siddiqui

Publisher:

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13:

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Monograph on the economic policy of rural area poverty in Bangladesh - based on a 1978 village field study, analyses the agrarian structure, cultivation techniques, agricultural production, fishing, intergroup relations, nutrition, roles of religion and local government, central government, rural development and agricultural policies, etc.; denounces foreign investment and development aid dimensions of rural poverty. Bibliography, glossary of Bengali terms, graphs and maps.

The Agrarian Structure Of Bangladesh
The Agrarian Structure Of Bangladesh

Author: F. Tomasson Jannuzi

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-11

Total Pages: 109

ISBN-13: 1000314510

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The relationship between the agrarian structure of Bangladesh and its problems of rural development is established in this study based on four years (1975-79) of field research. The authors suggest that the concentration of land in the hands of a rural elite is the principal impediment to the participation of weaker sections of the peasantry in economic progress. Tracing the failure of local attempts to change Bangladesh's agrarian structure by legislative means, they outline a modified program for rural development that is linked to agrarian reform. Agrarian reform, Drs. Jannuzi and Peach argue, is the prerequisite for a rural development strategy that provides for both economic growth and improved income distribution; thus, approaches to rural development in Bangladesh that place reliance on new agricultural technology without first changing the institutions that determine peoples' relationships to the land are not viable. The authors' policy recommendations, grounded in new data on the relative proportions of owners of land, sharecroppers, and the landless, are supplemented by a theoretical analysis of the institution of sharecropping and detailed field work methodology.

Is the Bangladesh Paradox Sustainable?
Is the Bangladesh Paradox Sustainable?

Author: Selim Raihan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-10-31

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 100928469X

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Diagnostic account of how institutions and politics have shaped the development of Bangladesh and reforms needed for further development.

Why Agriculture Productivity Falls
Why Agriculture Productivity Falls

Author: Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir

Publisher: Purdue University Press

Published: 2023-06-15

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1612498345

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Why Agriculture Productivity Falls: The Political Economy of Agrarian Transition in Developing Countries offers a new explanation for the decline in agricultural productivity in developing countries. Transcending the conventional approaches to understanding productivity using agricultural inputs and factors of production, this work brings in the role of formal and informal institutions that govern transactions, property rights, and accumulation. This more robust methodology leads to a comprehensive, well-balanced lens to perceive agrarian transition in developing countries. It argues that the existing process of accumulation has resulted in nonsustainable agriculture because of market failures—the result of asymmetries of power, diseconomies of scale, and unstable property rights. The book covers the historical shifts in land relations, productivity, and class relations that have led to present-day challenges in sustainability. The result is arrested productivity growth. Agrarian transition should be understood in the context of the wider economic development in society, including how political settlement and primitive accumulation inhibited the kind of property rights that encourage growth. Why Agriculture Productivity Falls is a much-needed corrective to the traditional understanding, because before we can increase productivity, we must understand the root causes of those challenges.