The effects of land registration on financial development and economic growth - a theoretical and conceptual framework

The author develops a theoretical framework to guide empirical analysis of how land registration affects financial development and economic growth. Most conceptual approaches investigate the effects of land registration on only one sector, nut land registration is commonly observed to affect not only other sectors but the economy as a whole. The author builds on the well-tested link between secure land ownership and farm productivity, adding to the framework theory about positive information and transaction costs. To map the relationship between land registration and financial development and economic growth, the framework links: 1) Land tenure security and investment incentives. 2) Land title, collateral, and credit. 3) Land markets, transactions, and efficiency. 4) Labor mobility and efficiency. 5) Land liquidity, deposit mobilization, and investment. Empirical results from applying the framework to a single case study - of Thailand, described in a separate paper - suggest that the framework is sound.Labor Policies,Environmental Economics&Policies,Banks&Banking Reform,Economic Theory&Research,Payment Systems&Infrastructure,Economic Theory&Research,Municipal Financial Management,Rural Land Policies for Poverty Reduction,Environmental Economics&Policies,Banks&Banking Reform

How land registration affects financial development and economic growth in Thailand

Using an economy-wide conceptual framework, the author analyzes how land registration affects financial development and economic growth in Thailand. He uses contemporary techniques, such as error correction and co-integration, to deal with such problems as time-series data not being stationary. He also uses the auto-regressive distributed lag model to analyze long lags in output response to changes in land registration. His key findings: 1) Land titling has significant positive long-run effects on financial development. 2) Economic growth responds to land titling following a J curve, by first registering a fall and recovering gradually, thereafter to post a long, strong rally. 3) The quality of land registration services, as measured by public spending on land registration, has strongly positive and significant long-run effects on economic growth.Climate Change,Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Public Sector Economics&Finance,Land Use and Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Achieving Shared Growth,Inequality,Economic Growth

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Negotiating the 'trading zone'. Creating a shared information infrastructure in the Dutch public safety sector

Our main concern in this article is whether nation-wide information technology (IT) infrastructures or systems in emergency response and disaster management are the solution to the communication problems the safety sector suffers from. It has been argued that implementing nation-wide IT systems will help to create shared cognition and situational awareness among relief workers. We put this claim to the test by presenting a case study on the introduction of ‘netcentric work’, an IT system-based platform aiming at the creation of situational awareness for professionals in the safety sector in the Netherlands. The outcome of our research is that the negotiation with relevant stakeholders by the Dutch government has lead to the emergence of several fragmented IT systems. It becomes clear that a top-down implementation strategy for a single nation-wide information system will fail because of the fragmentation of the Dutch safety sector it is supposed to be a solution to. As the US safety sector is at least as fragmented as its Dutch counterpart, this may serve as a caveat for the introduction of similar IT systems in the US

Effect of Land Use Intensity On Diversity And Abundance of Soil Insects And Earthworms In Sumberjaya, Lampung

Insects, including termites, ants, and beetles are taxonomically diverse, abundant, andecologically important in the soil environment. Although not too diverse, earthworms are also abundantin the soil. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of land use (LU) change on diversityand abundance of soil insects and earthworms in Sumberjaya, Lampung. Methods used were monolith(for earthworms), transect (for termites), and Winkler (for ants and beetles). Termites and earthwormswere identified up to species, ants up to generic level, and beetles to family/sub-family level. Resultsshow that from seven land use types (less disturbed forest, more disturbed forest, polyculture coffee,monoculture coffee, food crop, vegetable crop, and shrub) we found 53 ant genera, 59 beetle families/ subfamilies, 37 termite species, and 10 earthworm species. Diversity and abundance of ants,beetles, and termites decrease as LU intensity increases. LU change did not affect earthwormdiversity or abundance, but smaller-sized earthworms tended to be found in more intensive LU types.Deforestation caused the loss of native earthworm species

PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF FORMULATED AND COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE DE-EMULSIFIERS

The de-emulsification of water-in-oil emulsion of Ogharefe crude oil samples was studied by using formulated polyester based de-emulsifier sample A and a commercially available de-emulsifier sample C. The bottle test method was used to screen the de-emulsifier samples. The performance of the de-emulsifiers was expressed in terms of percentage of water separated from 100 ml samples of emulsions. For both the formulated and commercial de-emulsifiers, the performance increased with increased concentration of the de-emulsifiers, separation time and operating temperature. The effect of the operating temperature was much higher and there was a linear between performance and temperature. The performance of the best of the formulated de-emulsifiers, sample A, was better than that of the commercial de-emulsifier under all the conditions of this study- the volume of water expelled by sample A was 5 times that of the commercial one at 30oC. At 70oC, this ratio increased to 14

Liminal Surveillance. An ethnographic control room study during a local event

This article is about the targeted, temporarily intensified use of an already existing, permanently installed surveillance system for the safety and security management during a local event at the campus of the University of Illinois, USA. In particular it is the CCTV system that is analyzed after an ethnographic control room study. It became clear that the law enforcement intensified the use of the CCTV system during the festival. The temporal, intensified use of a surveillance system is in this article labeled as 'liminal surveillance'. Not only could the police intensify the surveillance as a result of the liminal use of the CCTV system, but they also could test the system in extreme circumstances, advocate its use, and raise attention for safety and security issues during the festival. In this article both the intended and unintended consequences of liminal surveillance are discussed

Spaces not containing ℓ1\ell_1 have weak aproximate fixed point property

A nonempty closed convex bounded subset $C$ of a Banach space is said to have the weak approximate fixed point property if for every continuous map $f:C\to C$ there is a sequence $\{x_n\}$ in $C$ such that $x_n-f(x_n)$ converge weakly to 0. We prove in particular that $C$ has this property whenever it contains no sequence equivalent to the standard basis of $\ell_1$. As a byproduct we obtain a characterization of Banach spaces not containing $\ell_1$ in terms of the weak topology.Comment: 6 pages; the paper was reorganized a bi

On the maximal index of connected graphs

AbstractLet H(n, e) denote the set of all connected graphs having n vertices and e edges. The graphs in H(n, n + k) with maximal index are determined for k of form (r2)−1 and n arbitrary