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Eminent domain [a], also known as land acquisition, [b] compulsory purchase, [c] resumption, [d] resumption/compulsory acquisition, [e] or expropriation [f], is the compulsory acquisition of private property for public use.
The practice of land requisitions and forced evictions is widespread in China as local governments make way for private real estate developers. Under Chinese property law, there is no privately held land; "urban land" is owned by the state, which grants land rights for a set number of years. Rural, or "collectively owned land," is leased by the ...
Since all land is owned either collectively or by the state, [32] expropriation of rural land only requires the withdrawal of land use rights for the reason of "public interest." The definition of public interest is intentionally vague, and a general list of such interests has been expounded in an attempt to define what it means. [33] [34]
World Bank President Kim said in March that the demand in struggling regions for infrastructure spending — to provide clean water, electricity, medical care and other vital needs — will mean the bank will finance an increasing number of big projects likely to remove people from their land or disrupt their livelihoods. The World Bank also ...
By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling party aims to test clauses in the constitution to see if they allow for land to be expropriated without compensation to address racial ...
Land in Bolivia was unequally distributed – 92% of the cultivable land was held by large estates – until the Bolivian national revolution in 1952. Then, the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement government abolished forced peasantry labor and established a program of expropriation and distribution of the rural property of the traditional landlords to the indigenous peasants.
The right to property, or the right to own property (cf. ownership), is often [how often?] classified as a human right for natural persons regarding their possessions.A general recognition of a right to private property is found [citation needed] more rarely and is typically heavily constrained insofar as property is owned by legal persons (i.e. corporations) and where it is used for ...
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