Reading a 2011 World Bank study3 on this phenomenon, one has the impression that the weaker the governance, the more attractive the country to large-scale land-based foreign land investments.
The process of land concentration tends to be amplified by large-scale foreign land acquisitions, resulting in growing inequalities in farm size.
New World says it is the biggest foreign holder of land-use rights in China.
Those who fled to the South Western peninsula (cern in Celtic or cornu in Latin) lived in Corn-wall - the foreign land on England's horn.
As the phenomenon of large-scale foreign land acquisitions is very recent, it is difficult to assess their full environmental and social impact at this early stage.
Even in Ethiopia, one of the prime recipients of land-based foreign direct investment in Africa, the law does not allow private ownership of the land, which belongs to the State.
Ownership of what is essentially a dead asset doesn't make us more productive, doesn't open up foreign markets, but it does land-lock us.
Then, toward the end of 2005, foreign-flagged companies controlled by the beer and land billionaire Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi acquired most of the shares.
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It required a bureaucratic struggle lasting several years before he managed to regain control over his file and land a good-paying job with a foreign firm in Beijing.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government had been hoping to push through legislations on easing foreign-investment rules in the insurance and pensions sectors and acquiring land for industrial and infrastructure projects in the budget session.
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He has directed three road movies: "The Motorcycle Diaries" (2004), "Central Station" (1998) and "Foreign Land" (1996), which he co-directed with Daniela Thomas.
The ABB unit, based in Sugar Land, Texas, provides products and services to many foreign state-owned electrical utilities.
Foreign governments and investors are increasingly on the lookout to buy cheap, well-watered tropical land.
President Robert Mugabe denies claims that government policies, including land reforms, have contributed to the problems - instead blaming domestic and foreign enemies for the country's difficulties.
Firpta taxes gains from foreign sales of assets including buildings, land, mines and timber, as well as stock in real-estate companies.
Eight Turkish nationals have been detained in Afghanistan after their chartered Mi-8 helicopter was forced to land, said Levent Gumrukcu, a spokesman at the Turkish Foreign Ministry in Ankara.
Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo told reporters: "The EU plan is to allow attacks on land installations when ships are assaulted at sea, " adding that "much care" would be taken to avoid civilian deaths.
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