Commercial Pressures on Land and Their Impact on Child Rights: A review of the literature

Bethelhem Ketsela Moulat, Ian Brand-Weiner, Ereblina Elezaj and Lucia Luzi

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Abstract: This paper aims to provide a comprehensive review of the existing literature on the political economy of CPLs with the specific intention of mapping the relevant channels of impact on the rights and well-being of children living in rural areas where CPLs are fast-proliferating. Although there are some documented benefits, according to the large majority of the literature reviewed, the twin outcomes of displacement and dispossession are found to be critical negative socio-economic changes resulting from CPLs. In conjunction with a pervasive lack of transparency in the land transfer negotiation and implementation processes, the twin outcomes are in turn associated with a number of transmission channels that can impact the rights and well-being of children in affected rural communities.

Keywords: business economics; displaced children; equal access; land acquisition; land speculation; marginality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F02 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 88
Date: 2012
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