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Library Reflections on the Development Policy Environment for Land and Property Rights

Reflections on the Development Policy Environment for Land and Property Rights

Reflections on the Development Policy Environment for Land and Property Rights

Background paper for an IDS Sussex workshop on new ideas on the rights to land, housing and property. Contains a renewed focus on poverty and, within that, a new focus on land rights; livelihoods and rights-based approaches; the World Bank and received orthodoxy in land policy; DFID’s focus on land rights in Africa; Francophone perspectives; recent World Bank thinking; the mysteries of capitalism (a discussion of de Soto); lessons learnt.

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