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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Deyu Miao, Samreen Gillani, Hafiz Syed Mohsin Abbas, Hongfeng Zhan
Summary: This paper investigates the institutional quality in 25 Asian countries from 2009 to 2020 by considering Country Policy and Institutional Rating as a proxy variable for institutional quality, and State Fragility and Institutional Governance as independent variables. The research findings suggest that corruption control measures, political stability, and voice and accountability environment significantly impact institutional quality and development in Asian economies. On the other hand, external intervention and state fragility have a negative effect on institutional quality and hinder the country's development progress.
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Environmental Studies
Adugna Eneyew Bekele, Dusan Drabik, Liesbeth Dries, Wim Heijman
Summary: This study examined the determinants of conflict among agro-pastoral households in areas affected by large-scale land investments in Ethiopia. Combining household and community surveys, descriptive statistics and a binary logit model were used for data analysis. The results showed that over a quarter of the studied communities experienced land conflicts in the past decade, which have increased since the establishment of large-scale land investments. The scarcity of pastureland and insecurity of land tenure were identified as the key drivers of land conflict.
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Environmental Studies
Hossein Shirzad, Ali Akbar Barati, Shaghayegh Ehteshammajd, Imaneh Goli, Narges Siamian, Saghi Movahhed Moghaddam, Mahdad Pour, Rong Tan, Kristina Janeckova, Petr Sklenicka, Hossein Azadi
Summary: This paper examines the impact of land registration on the link between land tenure and agricultural productivity, based on a study of 85 pieces of literature. The findings show that land tenure arrangements in Iran are evolving due to land demand and improvements in agricultural techniques. Further research is needed to better understand the relationship between land tenure system (LTS) and agricultural production (AP).
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Development Studies
Yunpeng Sun, Asif Razzaq
Summary: Improving environmental quality and fiscal management is important for sustainable development. However, little is known about the impact of fiscal decentralisation on environmental quality. This study analyzed data from 32 OECD countries and found that fiscal decentralisation significantly reduces carbon emissions at medium to higher emission levels, while green innovation reduces emissions from lower to medium levels. Institutional reforms promote environmental sustainability across all emission levels.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(2022)
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Environmental Studies
Andrew Chilombo
Summary: The interaction between land governance institutional structures and LSLA deals in Zambia is hindered by national party politics and a lack of institutional coherence between state and customary structures.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Yingmin Huang, Desheng Xue, Gengzhi Huang
Summary: This paper explores the role of the state in urban informality production by examining informal land-use practices in Dongguan, China since 1978. Findings show that informal land development is a response to national land law limitations, practiced from below by village collectives. The local government pragmatically handles informality to serve economic development goals in different historical contexts.
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Environmental Studies
Daramola Thompson Olapade, Bioye Tajudeen Aluko
Summary: Previous research has mainly focused on one specific aspect of land delivery institutions, failing to fully capture the multidimensional issues associated with LDIs and LDCs, which may lead to the formation of policies that are not comprehensive and difficult to implement.
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Business, Finance
Xia Yang, Zhong Ma
Summary: This study examines the impact of institutional investors' corporate site visits on firms' dividend payouts using a sample of Chinese listed firms in the Shenzhen Stock Exchange from 2013 to 2019. The findings suggest that corporate site visits can significantly promote dividend payouts, even after addressing potential endogenous problems. Furthermore, the study shows that corporate site visits can reduce dividend underpayment, especially in companies with severe agency conflict or weaker corporate governance. The relationship between site visits and dividends also varies with different characteristics of visited firms.
INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF ECONOMICS & FINANCE
(2022)
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Urban Studies
Jihuan Li, Gemma Burgess, Franziska Sielker
Summary: This research examines the institutional change in China's land development governance, specifically focusing on Shanghai's urban regeneration policies. The study finds that the redevelopment mode encouraged by the municipal governments is financially unattractive to district governments and market entities due to embedded institutional arrangements. However, the top-down campaign temporarily altered the power distribution among government levels and led to incremental institutional layering, resulting in a limited implementation of redevelopment projects.
Review
Food Science & Technology
Hossein Azadi, Stefan Burkart, Saghi Movahhed Moghaddam, Hossein Mahmoudi, Kristina Janeckova, Petr Sklenicka, Peter Ho, Dereje Teklemariam, Halil Nadiri
Summary: This paper explores the extent to which poor institutional arrangements on land tenure systems can explain famine in the Horn of Africa. It points out that insecure land tenure due to poor institutional arrangements is considered the main cause of diminished productivity in agriculture, exacerbating famine during times of drought.
FOOD REVIEWS INTERNATIONAL
(2022)
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Geography
Xiaobin Zhang, Walter Timo de Vries, Guan Li, Yanmei Ye, Linlin Zhang, Huiling Huang, Jiayu Wu
Summary: The study proposes a framework to evaluate the adaptability and sustainability of different governance structures under institutional environmental changes, with Chinese cases showing that both government-dominated land reallocation and self-organized land reallocation are suitable, but individual exchanges are not suitable for solving the fragmentation problem in China. The key to determining the suitability of governance structures lies in their alignment and coordination with the situation.
JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES
(2021)
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Environmental Studies
Philippe Lavigne Delville, Momar Diongue, Ibrahima Faye Diouf
Summary: The decentralisation of land administration in Senegal is in conflict with the political stakes of land tenure and the development of commercial transactions and agribusiness, leading to widespread semi-legal or illegal practices in communal land governance. These practices allow access to land for external actors and the legalisation of illegal sales, while also favouring the consolidation of power of elected officials and their enrichment. The central government tolerates this politicised governance of land and uses the law to serve its own political allies and promote its own projects.
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International Relations
Dino Krause
Summary: This study provides a large-scale analysis of the emergence of al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in civil wars, using a sample of countries in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia from 2003 to 2020. The findings suggest that higher levels of state repression and military capabilities increase the likelihood of transnationalization, while increases in bureaucratic state capacity reduce this risk. The study highlights the importance of bureaucratic capacity building and the potential negative consequences of excessive repressive counterterrorism strategies.
JOURNAL OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION
(2023)
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Environmental Sciences
Briana Swette, Eric F. Lambin
Summary: Livestock grazing on natural rangeland vegetation is a significant land use with implications for livelihoods, food security, and the environment. Changes in grazing practices on public lands since 1940 in the High Divide region were primarily driven by factors such as range condition evaluations, carrying capacity estimates, legal requirements, ranch economics, and amenity migration. Institutional management is crucial in balancing competing values and demands for privately-used rangelands.
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
(2021)
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Environmental Studies
Kees Krul, Peter Ho, Xiuyun Yang
Summary: The study demonstrates the impact of land registration on manifest and latent conflicts. In China's forest sector, the majority of manifest conflicts only arose after land registration was completed, with nearly half of disputed titles being revoked in court. A household survey in southwest China revealed that latent land conflicts were largely unaffected and unresolved by land registration.
