ISBN:
0754674983
,
9780754674986
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 255 S.
,
24 cm
DDC:
344.03/25
Keywords:
Public welfare Law and legislation
;
Human rights
;
Social legislation
;
Poverty
;
Armut
;
Bekämpfung
;
Empowerment
;
Recht
;
Einflussgröße
;
Entwicklungsländer
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Entwicklungsländer
;
Armut
;
Bekämpfung
;
Partizipation
;
Recht
Abstract:
Rights, legal empowerment, and poverty : an overview of the issues / Dan Banik -- The political economy of legal empowerment of the poor / Arjun Sengupta -- Legal empowerment as a new concept in development : transforming good ideas into global action / Mona Elisabeth Brøther -- Constitutionalism in an insurgent state : rethinking legal empowerment of the poor in a divided Bolivia / John-Andrew McNeish -- Poverty, legal activism, and development in rural China / Susanne Brandtstädter -- The access to justice challenge in Uganda / Donald Rukare -- Legal empowerment and the right to food / Marc Cohen and Mary Ashby Brown -- Are Africans culturally unsuited to property rights and the rule of law? Some reflections based on the Tanzanian case / Hernando de Soto -- Formalisation of land and housing tenure to empower the poor : simple nostrum or complex challenge? / Edward Robbins -- The challenges of promoting legal empowerment in developing countries : women's land ownership and inheritance rights in Malawi / Asiyati L. Chiweza -- 'Not on our land!' : peasants' struggle against forced land acquisition in India's West Bengal / Kenneth Nielsen
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Rights, legal empowerment, and poverty : an overview of the issues
,
The political economy of legal empowerment of the poor
,
Transforming good ideas into global action : the CLEP and the role of donors in the development discourse
,
Constitutionalism in an insurgent state? : plurality and the rule of law in a post-crisis Bolivia
,
Rural poverty, legal activism, and development in rural China
,
The access to justice challenge in Uganda
,
Legal empowerment and the right to food
,
Are Africans culturally unsuited to property rights and the rule of law? : some reflections based on the Tanzanian case
,
Formalisation of land and housing tenure to empower the poor : simple nostrum or complex challenge?
,
Women, property, and inheritance rights in Malawi
,
"Not on our land!" : peasants' struggle against forced land acquisition in India's West Bengal
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