One Billion Rising: Law, Land and the Alleviation of Global Poverty (Law, Governance, and Development) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9087280645 ISBN 13: 9789087280642

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2009

Synopsis

In an age fueled by globalization and focused on the struggling citizens of the urban metropolis, it might come as a surprise to learn that most of the world's 1.4 billion poorest people are still rural. Unfortunately, the vast majority of these populations lack ownership of-and rights to-the land that forms their principal source of livelihood. Although land reform and related legal work have transformed the lives of millions of families by providing secure land rights, not all such efforts have succeeded. That mix of success and failure has been a big part of the reason that, in recent years, the conventional wisdom concerning law and land tenure reform-what is needed, what is possible, and how such reform contributes to pro-poor development-has changed, sometimes in striking ways. In this timely and important volume, lawyers from the Rural Development Institute and the University of Washington's School of Law in Seattle use four decades worth of research on the results of land tenure reform efforts around the world in order to address how we might better meet the struggles to understand and change the plight of the rural poor.

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About the Author

|Robert Mitchell is Program Chair and Senior Land Tenure Expert at RDI, where he currently directs RDI's India Program, and Affiliate Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law.|Roy L. Prosterman is Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Rural Development Institute (RDI) in Seattle, Washington, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington School of Law.|Tim Hanstad is Chief Executive Officer and President of RDI, and Affiliate Associate Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law.

From the Back Cover

Overzicht van wereldwijde armoedebestrijding, en eigendomsrecht als oplossing, met een voorwoord van Nobelprijswinnaar Joseph E. Stiglitz

De meeste van de geschatte 1,4 miljard armste mensen ter wereld leven nog steeds op het platteland. Toch hebben de meeste van hen niet het eigendomsrecht of andere rechten op het land dat hun primaire bron van inkomsten is. Al hebben miljoenen families door hervormingen landrechten gekregen, toch waren niet alle pogingen geslaagd. Advocaten aan het Rural Development Institute en de University of Washington School of Law in Seattle hebben meer dan vier decennia besteed aan het adviseren, formuleren en het toepassen van de resultaten van eigendomsrechthervormingen over de hele wereld. Dit boek biedt het belangrijkste overzicht van dat werk.

Edition details

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9087280645
• ISBN 13: 9789087280642
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 454
• Editor: Prosterman Roy L.