Martina Manara
Biographic Data
| ID | 3719084 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martina Manara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martina |
| FAMILY NAME | Manara |
| SIGNATURE | MANARA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1705-4211 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ask a Local: Improving the Public Pricing of Land Titles in Urban Tanzania
Information on willingness-to-pay is key for public pricing and allocation of services but not easily collected. Studying land titles in Dar-es-Salaam, we ask whether local leaders know and will reveal plot owners’ willingness-to-pay. We randomly assign leaders to predict under different settings then elicit owners’ actual willingness-to-pay. Demand is substantial but below exorbitant fees. Leaders can predict the aggregate demand curve and disti…
Unbundling tenure security and demand for property rights: Evidence from urban Tanzania
Rapid urbanisation in sub-Saharan Africa occurs with little land registration, and government-led regularisation schemes often find limited uptake of title deeds by residents. In theory, there could be private and public benefits from land titling in cities. However, little is known about how landholders value the various dimensions of formal property rights in comparison to informal tenure. We address these questions by unbundling property right…
Institutional transition: Social cohesion and demand for land titles in urban Tanzania
Institutional work: How lenders transform land titles into collateral in urban Tanzania
We examine the ‘institutional configuration’ that makes land titles work as collateral in Tanzania’s nascent credit market, through the ‘institutional work’ of local lenders. This work is effective and precarious: while lenders seek out and create institutional complementarities across diverse domains, they also require higher-level regulation to help stabilise land titles’ fungibility as collateral. Our results contribute to knowledge on path-de…
Institutional pluralism and pro-poor land registration: Lessons on interim property rights from urban Tanzania
While interim property rights are thought to achieve incremental improvements of tenure security and rights for the urban poor, there is surprisingly little research into the provision of starter documents in sub-Saharan Africa. Namely, how effective are interim property rights in responding to local demands for tenure security and rights in the long run and vis-à-vis other de facto and de jure tenure options? Drawing on an institutional analytic…
Institutional hybrids through meso-level bricolage: The governance of formal property in urban Tanzania
Drawing on a case-study from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, we explore who governs formal property in African cities, how they make formal property legitimate and functional, and the consequences of these processes. Through the analytic lenses of institutional hybridity and ‘meso-level’ bricolage, we study the implementation of the Residential Licence programme, which offered a relatively affordable interim property right to the urban poor. We illustra…
From policy to institution: Implementing land reform in Dar es Salaam's unplanned settlements
Tanzania led the wave of land reform in sub-Saharan Africa, promoting 'institutional fixes' of property rights to stimulate urban development and poverty alleviation. Since 2005, the Residential Licence programme has offered short-term leases to around 180,000 households in the unplanned settlements of Dar es Salaam. However, the rate of title acquisition has been moderate to low, as in much of urban Africa. To understand the demand for land titl…
The depoliticisation of asylum seekers: Carl Schmitt and the Italian system of dispersal reception into cities
Institutional hybrids through meso-level bricolage: The governance of formal property in urban Tanzania
Drawing on a case-study from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, we explore who governs formal property in African cities, how they make formal property legitimate and functional, and the consequences of these processes. Through the analytic lenses of institutional hybridity and ‘meso-level’ bricolage, we study the implementation of the Residential Licence programme, which offered a relatively affordable interim property right to the urban poor. We illustra…
Institutional work: How lenders transform land titles into collateral in urban Tanzania
We examine the ‘institutional configuration’ that makes land titles work as collateral in Tanzania’s nascent credit market, through the ‘institutional work’ of local lenders. This work is effective and precarious: while lenders seek out and create institutional complementarities across diverse domains, they also require higher-level regulation to help stabilise land titles’ fungibility as collateral. Our results contribute to knowledge on path-de…
The depoliticisation of asylum seekers: Carl Schmitt and the Italian system of dispersal reception into cities
Institutional transition: Social cohesion and demand for land titles in urban Tanzania
Institutional pluralism and pro-poor land registration: Lessons on interim property rights from urban Tanzania
While interim property rights are thought to achieve incremental improvements of tenure security and rights for the urban poor, there is surprisingly little research into the provision of starter documents in sub-Saharan Africa. Namely, how effective are interim property rights in responding to local demands for tenure security and rights in the long run and vis-à-vis other de facto and de jure tenure options? Drawing on an institutional analytic…
From policy to institution: Implementing land reform in Dar es Salaam's unplanned settlements
Tanzania led the wave of land reform in sub-Saharan Africa, promoting 'institutional fixes' of property rights to stimulate urban development and poverty alleviation. Since 2005, the Residential Licence programme has offered short-term leases to around 180,000 households in the unplanned settlements of Dar es Salaam. However, the rate of title acquisition has been moderate to low, as in much of urban Africa. To understand the demand for land titl…
The depoliticisation of asylum seekers: Carl Schmitt and the Italian system of dispersal reception into cities
From policy to institution: Implementing land reform in Dar es Salaam's unplanned settlements
Tanzania led the wave of land reform in sub-Saharan Africa, promoting 'institutional fixes' of property rights to stimulate urban development and poverty alleviation. Since 2005, the Residential Licence programme has offered short-term leases to around 180,000 households in the unplanned settlements of Dar es Salaam. However, the rate of title acquisition has been moderate to low, as in much of urban Africa. To understand the demand for land titl…
Institutional work: How lenders transform land titles into collateral in urban Tanzania
We examine the ‘institutional configuration’ that makes land titles work as collateral in Tanzania’s nascent credit market, through the ‘institutional work’ of local lenders. This work is effective and precarious: while lenders seek out and create institutional complementarities across diverse domains, they also require higher-level regulation to help stabilise land titles’ fungibility as collateral. Our results contribute to knowledge on path-de…
Institutional pluralism and pro-poor land registration: Lessons on interim property rights from urban Tanzania
While interim property rights are thought to achieve incremental improvements of tenure security and rights for the urban poor, there is surprisingly little research into the provision of starter documents in sub-Saharan Africa. Namely, how effective are interim property rights in responding to local demands for tenure security and rights in the long run and vis-à-vis other de facto and de jure tenure options? Drawing on an institutional analytic…
Institutional hybrids through meso-level bricolage: The governance of formal property in urban Tanzania
Drawing on a case-study from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, we explore who governs formal property in African cities, how they make formal property legitimate and functional, and the consequences of these processes. Through the analytic lenses of institutional hybridity and ‘meso-level’ bricolage, we study the implementation of the Residential Licence programme, which offered a relatively affordable interim property right to the urban poor. We illustra…
Unbundling tenure security and demand for property rights: Evidence from urban Tanzania
Rapid urbanisation in sub-Saharan Africa occurs with little land registration, and government-led regularisation schemes often find limited uptake of title deeds by residents. In theory, there could be private and public benefits from land titling in cities. However, little is known about how landholders value the various dimensions of formal property rights in comparison to informal tenure. We address these questions by unbundling property right…
Institutional transition: Social cohesion and demand for land titles in urban Tanzania
Ask a Local: Improving the Public Pricing of Land Titles in Urban Tanzania
Information on willingness-to-pay is key for public pricing and allocation of services but not easily collected. Studying land titles in Dar-es-Salaam, we ask whether local leaders know and will reveal plot owners’ willingness-to-pay. We randomly assign leaders to predict under different settings then elicit owners’ actual willingness-to-pay. Demand is substantial but below exorbitant fees. Leaders can predict the aggregate demand curve and disti…
Urban and Rural Development Challenges (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Land Rights and Reforms (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Tanzania (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Property rights (4 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (3 works) · Finance (3 works)