Land Acquisition in Asia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   • Naoyuki Yoshino, Saumik Paul

   Pages 1-6

3. Conceptual Foundations: Displacement and Welfare

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. Interdisciplinary Approach to Long-Term Welfare Effects of Displacement

      • Lai Ming Lam, Saumik Paul

      Pages 9-23

   3. Short-Term Versus Long-Term Effects of Forced Displacement

      • Sayak Khatua, Vengadeshvaran Sarma

      Pages 25-38

4. Regional Accounts: Socio-Economic Effects of Displacement

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39

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   2. The Long-Term Livelihood Effects of the Conservation-Led Displacement in Kanchanpur, Nepal

      • Lai Ming Lam, Basant Pant, Vengadeshvaran Sarma

      Pages 41-56

   3. Attitudes Toward Land Acquisition in Indonesia

      • Naoyuki Yoshino, Rasyad A. Parinduri, Yoko Oishi

      Pages 57-79

   4. The Political Economy of Caste, Forced Displacement and Impact on Local Communities’ Welfare in Nepal

      • Lai Ming Lam, Basant Pant, Vengadeshvaran Sarma

      Pages 81-96

   5. Special Economic Zones and Livelihood Changes: Evidence from India

      • Saumik Paul, Vengadeshvaran Sarma

      Pages 97-116

   6. Attitudes Towards Forced Displacement in West Bengal, India: To Move (Again) or Not?

      • Saumik Paul, Vengadeshvaran Sarma

      Pages 117-131

5. Way Forward: Policy Measures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133

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   2. Land Trust to Facilitate Development Through Land Transfer

      • Naoyuki Yoshino, Saumik Paul, Vengadeshvaran Sarma, Saloni Lakhia

      Pages 135-145

   3. Economic Development and Effects on Land

      • Shreyas P. Bharule

      Pages 147-165

   4. Land Pooling as a Means of Mitigating Land Displacement in India

      • Saloni Lakhia

      Pages 167-181

   5. Conclusion

      • Naoyuki Yoshino, Saumik Paul

      Pages 183-184

This book explores the existing and diverse institutional bottlenecks of land acquisition, ranging from legal and social to political and even environmental within the Asian context. It identifies the short- and long-term risks associated with land sale through regional case studies and aims to propose a more sustainable policy framework. One such policy framework proposed is that of Land Trust for mitigating some of these risks. For instance, recent studies argue that land trust or land lease is one of the best ways to increase the rate of return to invite private investors into infrastructure investment and industrialization. 

A rare snapshot of a continent in the process of rapid development, this book offers an invaluable resource for scholars, activists and politicians alike. 

• Land rights
• urbanization
• Asian cities
• sustainable economic practices
• Developmental economics

• Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Tokyo, Japan

  Naoyuki Yoshino, Saumik Paul

Naoyuki Yoshino is Dean of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI); Professor Emeritus of Keio University, Tokyo, Japan; and Senior Adviser at the Japan Financial Services Agency’s (FSA) Financial Research Center (FSA Institute).   He obtained his PhD from Johns Hopkins University, where his thesis supervisor was Sir Alan Walters (who was Margaret Thatcher’s Economic Adviser).  He was appointed board of the Financial Planning Standards Board in 2007, and also served as chairperson of the Japanese Ministry of Finance’s council on Foreign Exchange and its Fiscal System Council (Fiscal Investment and Loan Program Section). He was also a board member of the Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan, chairperson of the Meeting of Japanese Government Bond Investors (Ministry of Finance), and was President of the Financial System Council of the Government of Japan. He is the President of Financial Education Council organized by the Central Bank of Japan, Financial Services Agency (FSA), Ministry of Education, Cabinet Ministry and private financial institutions.


Saumik Paul is research economist at the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI). Prior to this, he worked at the Hitotsubashi University, University of Nottingham (Malaysia campus), Osaka University and the World Bank. He is interested in policy relevant research on topics related to structural transformation, productivity growth and land reform. His current projects examine land disputes and the process of industrialization in India, Indonesia and Nepal, and also the role of structural transformation in regional growth and convergence in Japan and other Asian countries.

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