Sentence examples for landholding from inspiring English sources

Instead, the Bank wants to see more emphasis on providing public goods—such as education, roads and farm-related research and development—in rural areas.Some would say that a larger rural population and a very unequal pattern of landholding strengthen the case for land reform.

Though Mr Lugo failed to reform landholding, partly because of opposition in Congress, he did introduce modest handouts for the poorest.

But it soon became the centre of a corruption scandal in which payments meant for small farmers went instead to large landholding families.

Forth Ports, the docks company, has written down the value of much of its extensive landholding to zero.City bosses, however, think they can get things going again.

He had jumped from a blank sheet of paper to an embryonic version of the "present value" calculation at the heart of modern finance.Petty's landholding also provided the spur for his most important invention, GDP.

It is a sign of how London's odd pattern of landholding has encouraged a retail revival.Six major estates own large parts of central London (see map).

Assuming a conservative value of $5 per tonne of carbon locked up by trees, she calculates that a wildfire which spread through half of the landholding that Mr Maggi is legally required to keep as forest would cost him $16m.

There and then, "one of the highest marks of a desirable landholding was that, to use a much later phrase, 'a river runs through it', and that this river should hold fish, whose safety from proletarian intrusion must be upheld by law".

AIDS has orphaned more than 1m children.In the western province of Nyanza, one of the most populous parts of the country, edging Lake Victoria, a family's average landholding is 0.8 hectares (less than two acres) and the average number of children between seven and eight; the death rate from AIDS has been particularly high.

This installed a uniquely unequal pattern of landholding, sustained by serfdom and slavery.

Wang emerged from a rising new group of southern bureaucrats with a strong utilitarian bent, who challenged their more conservative, large-landholding colleagues from the north.