land rights with local traditions of stewardship. Highlighting discussions from last week’s CHOGM in Samoa, the podcast emphasizes the importance of balancing economic growth with cultural preservation, advocating for equitable frameworks where traditional landowners are true partners in development. Through...
In PNG, over 80 percent of the population lives in the rural-agrarian sector and, since time immemorial, most of these people have depended directly upon customary land for their livelihood. The customary land-tenure system has checks and balances to absorb pressure in times of change and ...
[...]scope of rural land as defined in clause 2 of the Bill from the application of Part II of the New Territories Ordinance (NTO), so that the general laws of Hong Kong about succession rights would apply to these land rather than Chinesecustomarylawand practices on inheritanceiftheland ...
fundamental rightsco-decisionEU immigration policyThe nature of customary land as partially anticommons property may be the reason why much land in Papua New Guinea (PNG) is underutilized. Customary land remained undeveloped because landowners are not seeking ways to maximize individual gains. ...
I illuminate how accounting has had an ongoing influence in perpetuating the post-colonial condition in the form of new actors such as transnational corporations and new processes that heavily rely on the craft of accounting. While these cases illustrate the ongoing practices of land alienation and ...