Dimbab, Ngidang (2008) Contraditions in land development schemes: The case of joint ventures in Sarawak, Malaysia. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 43 (2). pp. 157-180. ISSN 1467-8373
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Landowners and the private investors often have contradictory interests in joint ventures. Although development planners sometimes believe that government can harmonise these contradictions, state interests in development often lead them to support the interests of private capital. While joint ventures may be useful ways of pooling human, material and financial resources, this article draws on a case study of two pilot joint venture oil palm schemes in Sarawak, Malaysia, to show that the legal construction and administration of native customary land rights generate lower results for landowners than they do for the private sector. Information and power asymmetries constrain the ability of affected natives to realise fair benefits under a joint venture arrangement. When institutional constraints that give a measure of protection to native rights and interests are dismantled in the rush to establish commercial plantations for example, an unregulated market can be detrimental to landowners’ rights and long–term interests.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Landowners, land development, schemes, unimas, university, universiti, Borneo, Malaysia, Sarawak, Kuching, Samarahan, ipta, education, research, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences |
| Divisions: | Academic Faculties, Institutes and Centres > Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanities Faculties, Institutes, Centres > Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanities |
| Depositing User: | Karen Kornalius |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Mar 2017 08:22 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Mar 2017 08:22 |
| URI: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/15751 |
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