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

Title
Demystifying the mystery of capital : land tenure and poverty in Africa and the Caribbean / edited by Robert Home and Hilary Lim.
Publication
London : GlassHouse Press ; Portland, Or. : Published in the US by Cavendish Pub., 2004.

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Additional Authors
  • Home, Robert K.
  • Lim, Hilary.
Description
xii, 160 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Continental Organization for Global Co-operation Against Poverty in Africa
  • Land tenure > Law and legislation > Africa
  • Land tenure > Law and legislation > Caribbean Area
  • Poverty > Caribbean Area
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Demystifying the 'mystery of capital' / Robert Home and Hilary Lim -- Outside de Soto's bell jar: colonial/post-colonial land law and the exclusion of the peri-urban poor / Robert Home -- Land readjustment for peri-urban customary tenure: the example of Botswana / Clarissa Fourie -- Inheritance, HIV/AIDS and children's rights to land / Hilary Lim -- Botswana: 'self-allocation', 'accommodation' and 'zero tolerance' in Mogoditshane and Old Naledi / Chadzimula Molebatsi -- Trinidad: 'we are not squatters, we are settlers' / Charisse Griffith-Charles -- Zambia: 'having a place of your own' in Kitwe / John Kangwa -- Conclusions.
ISBN
1904385133
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library