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oapen-20.500.12657-328832022-04-26T11:18:18Z One Billion Rising. Law, Land and the Alleviation of Global Poverty Hanstad, Tim Mitchell, Robert L. Prosterman, Roy law land tenure sociology China India Land law Land reform Legal aid bic Book Industry Communication::L Law::LA Jurisprudence & general issues::LAQ Law & society Most of the world's estimated 1.4 billion poorest people are still rural. Yet the majority lack ownership (or any secure rights) to the land that is their principal source of livelihood. Although land law and related reforms have transformed the lives of millions of families by providing secure land rights, not all such efforts have succeeded. Over the years, the conventional wisdom concerning law and land tenure reform-what is needed, what is possible, and how such reform contributes to pro-poor development-has changed, sometimes in striking ways. Lawyers at the Rural Development Institute and the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle have spent more than four decades advising on, helping formulate and assessing the results of land tenure reform efforts around the world. The present volume distills key lessons from that work and parallel work by others. 2016-12-31 23:55:55 2018-12-03 17:12:26 2020-04-01T14:21:35Z 2020-04-01T14:21:35Z 2009 book 595046 OCN: 475641384 9789087280642 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32883 eng Law, Governance, and Development application/pdf n/a 595046.pdf http://www.lup.nl/product/one-billion-rising/ Leiden University Press 10.24415/9789087280642 10.24415/9789087280642 276c53fd-5f1d-4065-9fce-9628863ddca8 9789087280642 open access
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Most of the world's estimated 1.4 billion poorest people are still rural. Yet the majority lack ownership (or any secure rights) to the land that is their principal source of livelihood. Although land law and related reforms have transformed the lives of millions of families by providing secure land rights, not all such efforts have succeeded. Over the years, the conventional wisdom concerning law and land tenure reform-what is needed, what is possible, and how such reform contributes to pro-poor development-has changed, sometimes in striking ways. Lawyers at the Rural Development Institute and the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle have spent more than four decades advising on, helping formulate and assessing the results of land tenure reform efforts around the world. The present volume distills key lessons from that work and parallel work by others.
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