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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. - 1 online resource (xii, 160 pages) : illustrations, maps

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Demystifying the 'mystery of capital' / Outside de Soto's bell jar: colonial/post-colonial 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 / 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 / Robert Home and Hilary Lim -- Robert Home -- Clarissa Fourie -- Hilary Lim -- Chadzimula Molebatsi -- Charisse Griffith-Charles -- John Kangwa -- Introduction: Conclusions.


English.

ISBN: 9781135311032 (electronic bk.) 113531103X (electronic bk.) 9781843147046 1843147041 9781135310981 (e-book ; Mobi) 113531098X 9781135311025 (e-book ; ePub) 1135311021 9781138439139 (hardback) 1138439134 1282376527 9781282376526 9786612376528 661237652X

Standard No.: 10.4324/9781843147046 doi

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Land tenure--Law and legislation--Africa.
Land tenure--Law and legislation--Caribbean Area.
Poverty--Africa.
Poverty--Caribbean Area.
Pauvreté--Afrique.
Pauvreté--Caraïbes (Région)
LAW--Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Land tenure--Law and legislation.
Poverty.
Grundeigentum
Armut
Landrechten.
Armoede.
Bestrijding.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Africa.
Caribbean Area.
Subsaharisches Afrika
Karibik

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: KQC772 / .D46 2004eb

Dewey Class. No.: 346.604/32

National Agricultural Library Call No.: KQC772 / .D46 2004