Does uncertainty exist where transparency is missing? Land privatisation in Mongolia

Land Use Policy

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 798-804

  Bagdai, Naranchimeg ^a   van der Molen, Paul ^a   Tuladhar, Arbind ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Land privatisation; Mongolia; Transition; Transparency; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; LAND RIGHTS; LANDOWNERSHIP; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; PRIVATIZATION; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY;

MONGOLIA;

EID: 84857800001     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2011.12.006     Document Type: Article

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