Land tenure and rental in Western Sudan

This paper reports on aspects of land tenure in western Sudan, especially the nature of tenure insecurity and the functioning of the land rental market. The active land rental market accounted for about one-third of cultivated land. Patterns of land rental transactions, and tests of the importance of insecurity in renting land, where the owner may not be able to reclaim land rented out, do not support the presumption that rental markets perform poorly. The role of the sheikh as administrator of village land, and the claims of large landowners to vast tracts, are, however, important political problems that must be resolved before attempts at ‘rationalizing’ land tenure.     

农村经济的“第二个飞跃”与农用土地制度改革

土地制度的安排与改革决定着农村经济发展的前程。我国农业的改革和发展,要有两个飞跃:第一个是实行以家庭联产承包经营为主的责任制;第二个是发展适度的规模经营,发展合作经济。现行土地制度制约着第二个飞跃的实现,需要调整和完善。土地私有化不是我国土地制度改革的方向。土地制度改革在于适应现代农业建设的需要,构建农地财产权新的框架,以利于农业产业化经营,发展多种形式的适度规模经营。     

构建农村和谐社会的思考

构建农村和谐社会,应当树立正确的农民增收观,促进农民持续快速增收,缩小城乡差别;加快农地产权制度改革,解决农地矛盾和纠纷;加快农村基层组织制度和县乡行政改革,解决农村干群矛盾;加快农村教育发展,改进农村教育质量,提高农民素质;加大再造秀美山川工程监管力度,消除工作中存在的不实、不公等因素;加快农村社会保障制度建设,消除农民的后顾之忧.     

Land use externalities, open space preservation, and urban sprawl

Parcel data on residential land conversion are used to investigate how land use externalities influence the rate of development and modify policies designed to manage urban growth and preserve open space. Several “smart growth” policies are found to significantly influence land conversion, including a development clustering policy that concentrates development and generates preserved open space. In addition to directly affecting a parcel's hazard rate of conversion, this policy is found to affect neighboring parcels' conversion by generating a positive open space externality that hastens their development. The implication that the clustering policy could generate a more sprawled pattern of development is explored using spatial simulation.     

The housing question in Japan

This article first examines how bad housing conditions are in Japan based on international comparisons. The next question is whether the extremely high land prices in Japan can be explained by economic logic. We then turn to more specific housing policy questions that are peculiar to or important in Japan, such as the tax advantages of owning land that have caused under-utilization of land and the reasons why the average size of Japanese rental housing is so small.     

Legalization of drugs: Effects on the workplace

In the last few years bipartisan support for legalizing drugs has grown to a surprising level. Because of the lack of involvement of the business community in this debate, we surveyed the human resource managers of 127 firms about their perceptions of the effects of legalization. Their responses were uniformly negative, with expectations that drug use, absenteeism, worksite crime, and liability costs would increase, while the quality and quantity of work would decline. They also forecast increases in drug testing, performance monitoring, and education and rehabilitation programs as a result.     

我国城市化危及土地资源持续利用的立法原因探析

随着我国城市化进程的不断加快 ,土地资源供给的有限性与人们对土地资源需求的无限性之间的矛盾日益突显。而在此背景下重新修订公布的《土地管理法》在涉及建设用地需求的无限扩展与农业用地数量的持续下降这两个突出问题上 ,并没有明确政府的职能定位 ,也反映出了相关制度的模糊性。本文就此进行了探讨。     

国家审计对地方财政支出结构的影响研究

运用国家审计理论,依据2007—2018年中国30个省份相关数据,考量国家审计对地方财政支出结构的影响机制以及财政资金使用效率和财政压力的中介效应。结果表明,国家审计对地方财政支出结构影响显著,国家审计通过提高财政资金使用效率和缓解财政压力两种机制影响地方财政支出结构;同时,财政资金使用效率与财政压力在国家审计提升地方社会性支出占比中发挥链式中介作用。鉴于此,应充分发挥国家审计治理效能,秉持研究型审计新理念,优化地方财政支出结构;开展财政资金绩效审计,提升地方财政资金使用效率。     

宅基地使用权转让的法律路径——兼评《物权法草案》第162条

设计宅基地使用权的转让制度既要充分考虑我国农村的现实，又要保持相关规则之间的协调。“一户一宅”原则宜表述为“一户只能申请一处宅基地”。物权法对宅基地使用权的转让可以进行必要的限制，但不宜作出绝对的禁止性规定，应当允许宅基地使用权在一定条件下和一定范围内转让。非本集体经济组织成员受让宅基地使用权有其必要性，但必须予以限制。宅基地使用权转让的登记制度，可统一采用“未经登记，不发生物权的效力”的处理模武。     

完善农村土地承包经营权的立法思考

农村土地承包经营权制度自从 2 0世纪 70年代末在中国实行以来 ,取得了巨大成就 ,推动了农村社会经济发展。但在实施过程中 ,由于其表现出债权的特征而逐渐暴露出种种弊端。以物权关系改造现行土地承包经营权制度 ,已成为法学界的共识。物权立法应就土地承包经营权的取得、效力、消灭等作出具体详细的规定 ,使之形成一整套完整的土地承包经营权法律制度