Demystifying the mystery of capital : land tenure and poverty in Africa and the Caribbean

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Demystifying the mystery of capital : land tenure and poverty in Africa and the Caribbean

edited by Robert Home and Hilary Lim

GlassHouse Press , Published in the US by Cavendish Pub., 2004

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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This is an original empirical and theoretical study of the use of law to secure land tenure in the face of poverty, urban and peri-urban growth and changing social structures.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction: Demystifying 'The Mystery of Capital'
  • Outside de Soto's Bell Jar: Colonial/Postcolonial Land Law and the Exclusion of The Peri-Urban Poor
  • Land Readjustment for Peri-Urban Customary Tenure: The Example of Botswana
  • Inheritance, HIV/AIDS and Children's Rights to Land in Africa
  • Botswana: 'Self Allocation', 'Accommodation' and 'Zero Tolerance' in Mogoditshane and Old Naledi
  • Trinidad: 'We Are Not Squatters, We Are Settlers'
  • Zambia: 'Having A Place of Your Own' in Kitwe
  • Conclusions.

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