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The 2003 land law defines that the Land
Tenure Certificate (LTCs) carries both the wife's and
husband's names. Theoretically, the requirement of both
the wife's and husband's names on the LTCs aims at
enabling the wife to participate more actively in household
economic production for poverty reduction, and to protect
the rights of the woman in the event of civil disputes over
the land that has been provided with a LTCs. A field-based
research was conducted in order to assess whether the
joint-title LTCs has had positive impacts on the household
in general and on the woman's roles in the household in
particular, as intended by the 2003 land law. The report is
organized in three sections: (1) introduction; (2) study
findings with five contents: access to credit; investment
opportunities and outcomes; land use rights security;
impacts on women's position in family and in community;
and issuance and conversion of LTCs; and (3) proposals to
land administration agencies.
