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Community Organizations Université de Namur - Centre de Recherche en Économie de Développement
Université de Namur - Centre de Recherche en Économie de Développement
Université de Namur - Centre de Recherche en Économie de Développement
Acronym
CRED
University or Research Institution

Location

Belgium

The Centre of Research in the Economics of Development (CRED) is a center for research devoted to studying problems of economic development, particularly issues of micro-institutions, collective action, market development, and political economics.


Most of the research carried out inCRED is based on first-hand data collected by members in various countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Works of both theoretical and empirical nature are regularly produced by a staff of six permanent academic members and between 10to 15 PhD students and post-doc researchers.


The main themes of research around which works of the CRED articulate are the following:


  1. Institutions, Social Norms and Development
  2. Aid, Governance, and Development  
  3. Poverty and Livelihood Strategies 
  4. Political Economics, Conflicts and Agrarian Relationship

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Land Tenure under Unendurable Stress: Rwanda Caught in the Malthusian Trap

Policy Papers & Briefs
января, 1996
Rwanda

This paper reports the findings of an in-depth case study of a highly densely populated area in the Northwest of Rwanda
which has been conducted during the period 1988-1993. It
demonstrates that acute competition for land in a context
characterized by too slow expansion of non-agricultural income
opportunities has resulted in increasingly unequal land distribution
and rapid processes of land dispossession through both operation
of the (illegal) land market and evolution of indigenous tenure