Property Rights

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[11/03/2013] Urban LandMark debates improved access to urban land and property rights with DFID London
Urban LandMark visited DFID London from 12 to 13 November 2012 to present the organisation’ s recent work on and approach to improving access to urban land and property rights.The main...
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[31/01/2013] Nigeria: 'Inequal Land Rights Aggravates Women's Status'
“The impact of the inequality in lands rights has aggravated women’s socio-economic status, allowed for sexual harassment and violence against women and contributed towards marital...
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[26/11/2012] Angola's trophy city a 'ghost town'
Built at a reported cost of $3.5-billion, the Nova Cidade de Kilamba (New City of Kilamba) was supposed to solve ­Angola’s chronic post-war housing shortage and go some way to fulfil a 2008...
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[16/08/2012] Urban LandMark Conference 2012: Investigating in land and strengthening property rights
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[14/07/2012] South Africa: Damaging myths on the land issue undermine and politicise reform debate
In an article published in Business Day newspaper, Leon Louw of the Free Market Foundation argues that the issue in land reform in SA should not be about the quantity of landownership in black hands...
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[02/02/2012] The Evolution of Bulgarian Land Tenure Institutions
This paper studies the evolution of the land tenure institutions of Bulgaria, an Eastern European country in transition from a socialist centrally planned to a capitalist market economy. The focus is...
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[25/01/2012] Subdividing the commons: The politics of property rights transformation in Kenya's Maasailand
This paper discusses the internal processes and decisions that characterized the transition from collectively held group ranches to individualized property systems among the Maasai pastoralists of...
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[25/01/2012] The Transformation of Property Rights in Kenya's Maasailand: Triggers and Motivations
This paper explores the puzzle of why the pastoral Maasai of Kajiado, Kenya, supported the individualization of their collectively held group ranches, an outcome that is inconsistent with theoretical...
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[25/01/2012] Pastoralists seasonal land rights in land administration
A series of papers on land use administration, land use change, securing of rights to resources and other in Laikipia, Kenya.
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[22/11/2011] Focus on Land in Africa: Mozambique Lesson Brief, Mozambique's Land Law
This lesson brief presents the laws that give people access and secure rights to land. These laws encourage investment in the land and can establish a foundation on which rural families can...
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