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Land tenure --- Agrarian tenure --- Feudal tenure --- Freehold --- Land ownership --- Land question --- Landownership --- Tenure of land --- Land use, Rural --- Real property --- Land, Nationalization of --- Landowners --- Serfdom --- Raffles, Thomas Stamford, --- Raffles, Thomas Stamford --- Lai-fo-shih, --- Raffles, Stamford, --- indonesia --- Bengal --- Economic rent --- Herman Willem Daendels --- Java --- John Crawfurd --- Rice --- Semarang --- Surabaya --- Surabaya‪ --- Indonesia --- bengal --- economic rent --- java --- rice

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This book identifies rent-seeking behaviour as one of the main causes of poor economic performance, observed, among other places, in many countries of Africa. Rent-seeking describes the ability to capture incomes without producing output or making a productive contribution. Since rent-seekers are often an integral part of an ailing economy and resist the adoption of reforms, understanding and anticipating rent-seeking behaviour is crucial for designing more adequate and effective policy reforms. Following a comprehensive theoretical elaboration of the causes, properties and consequences of rents and rent-seeking strategies in the context of economic reforms and development cooperation, this book presents a detailed case study on rent-seeking within the civil service, parastatal sector and business community. It demonstrates how rent-seekers in Tanzania have systematically delayed or undermined reforms such as tax reforms, trade liberalisation, privatisation or any reforms that aim to restrain corruption and embezzlement. The case study quantifies and evaluates the rent-seeking behaviour of more than 300 parastatal companies, considering their profits and losses, the quality and timeliness of their accounting and the magnitude of support they obtained from 16 different sources. Though it is often difficult to describe rent-seeking empirically—many aspects are hidden and obscured by all sorts of fake explanations—the study at hand explores the maze of endless, general and disaggregated information and traces as many indications of rent-seeking as possible. This broad and detailed approach makes the study unique not only for Tanzania but also within the literature on rent-seeking and development cooperation.

Rent (Economic theory) --- Transfer payments --- Tanzania --- Economic conditions. --- Government transfer payments --- Payments, Transfer --- Expenditures, Public --- Income distribution --- National income --- Economic rent --- Ground-rent --- Economics --- Land use --- Rent seeking --- Accounting --- Development economics. --- Culture-Study and teaching. --- Economic policy. --- Social policy. --- Development Economics. --- Regional and Cultural Studies. --- Economic Policy. --- Social Policy. --- National planning --- State planning --- Economic policy --- Family policy --- Social history --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy --- Economic development --- Culture—Study and teaching.

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This book collects important contributions on smart cities. This book was created in collaboration with the ICSC-CITIES2020, held in San José (Costa Rica) in 2020. This book collects articles on: energetic efficiency and sustainability; infrastructures, energy and the environment; mobility and IoT; governance and citizenship.

electric buses --- public transportation --- PV supplied sustainable transportation --- digitization --- knowledge sharing --- human resources management --- competitiveness --- Industry 4.0 --- home energy management --- Zigbee --- smart socket --- monitoring --- appliances scheduling --- urban mobility --- data analysis --- origin-destination --- ITS --- tall building --- locating criteria --- fuzzy visibility --- visual impact --- water accounting --- resource efficiencies --- virtual water trade --- Australian trade sustainability --- sustainable resource management --- governance-engineering nexus --- smart mobility --- demand responsive transport --- connected and autonomous vehicle --- Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) --- electric mobility --- shared transportation --- intelligent transportation systems --- smart city --- transportation disadvantage --- social exclusion --- Android application --- energy-efficient --- mobile ads --- gamma correction --- energy performance certificate (EPC) --- hedonic pricing method --- real estate market --- property prices --- Alicante --- DIALux --- simulation --- lighting quality --- teaching institution --- classroom lighting --- flood risk management --- measures --- approaches --- design criteria --- plans --- schemes --- hazard --- vulnerability --- risk --- expected annual damages --- direct and indirect flood losses --- computational intelligence --- image processing --- pedestrian movement patterns --- surveillance cameras --- cost–benefit analysis --- multicriteria analysis --- comparative risk assessment --- economic rent --- internal rate of return --- present value --- optimal risk point --- flood management ratio --- photovoltaic cell defect --- classifier --- artificial intelligence --- traffic congestion --- public urban transport --- daily infections by COVID-19 --- flood --- integrated flood risk management --- resilience building --- emergency planning --- disaster risk reduction --- community participation --- disaster preparedness --- environmental footprint --- cleanup --- green remediation --- renewable energy sources --- smart microgrid --- Home Assistant --- monitoring and control system --- older adults --- mobility --- systematic review --- municipal electric bike system --- electric bike-sharing --- sustainable urban transport --- travel behavior --- timetable synchronization --- public transportation planning --- mixed integer programming --- evolutionary algorithms --- real case study --- smart cities --- battery energy storage system --- dimensioning methodology --- industrial consumption --- electricity fixed term --- demand response --- smart grid --- discomfort index --- water heaters --- thermal model