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.     

从系统论的角度看集体建设用地可持续利用

土地可持续利用是一个系统论问题,集体建设用地和城市建设用地应该是土地系统中两个平等的子系统.从系统的角度通过分析当前集体建设用地利用中存在的问题,提出了实现集体建设用地的可持续利用应当遵循的政策建议.     

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。     

城市滨水区更新的土地利用策略

通过分析城市滨水地区土地利用现存问题及更新改造的动力因素,结合宁波市甬江东岸旧工业区改造规划,探讨了城市滨水区更新的土地利用策略,主要包括建立完善的土地储备制度、选择合理的用地功能布局以及制定土地开发控制和引导法则等内容.     

集体建设用地流转制度改革对房地产业的可能影响及对策研究

对当前集体建设用地使用权流转的探索和实践进行了简要归纳,认为实行集体建设用地流转制度改革有利于解决"三农"问题,切实保护农民利益,同时分析了集体建设用地流转制度改革对房地产业的可能影响,并提出相关政策建议.