Jean-Marie Baland
Jean-Marie Baland is Director of the Economic Sciences department at the University of Namur.
Content by Jean-Marie Baland
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Project
Compensations and Customary Rights in the Context of the Concessionaire Companies: An Economic Approach
The present report deals with the question of how to compensate rural communities affected by the operations of concessionaire companies in Liberia. Addressing this concern requires that we successively look at the three following issues: (1) how communities are being informed and involved in the process of negotiation leading to concession agreements; (2) how to design the...
30 Oct 2014 | Jean-Marie Baland, Jean-Phillippe Platteau
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Publication - Working Paper
Compensations and Customary Rights in the Context of the Concessionaire Companies: An Economic Approach (Working Paper)
25 Sep 2013 | Jean-Marie Baland, Jean-Phillippe Platteau
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Publication - Working Paper
Exploratory research on the impact of the Forest Rights Act, 2006, on deforestation, tribal welfare, and poverty, with implications for implementation strategies (Working Paper)
28 Mar 2013 | E. Somanathan, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, François Libois, Jean-Marie Baland
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Project
The impact of the Forest Rights Act (2006) on deforestation, tribal welfare, and poverty
When the United Progressive Alliance came to power in the Indian general elections of May 2004, it published a Common Minimum Programme in which it promised to end the eviction of tribal and other forest-dwelling people from forest lands. In March 2005, the Ministry of Tribal Affairs presented the first draft of the Forest Rights Act that guaranteed the right of tribal and...
1 Jul 2012 | E. Somanathan, Jean-Marie Baland, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, François Libois