This paper reviews whether land titling programmes have achieved the benefits claimed by
their proponents. It finds that they have generally failed to do so. Investment in land and …

Formalisation of property rights has recently been proposed as a way of reducing poverty.
The poor, it is said, do not lack assets, they lack only the formal, protected rights necessary …

Contemporary discourse on land in Africa is polarized between advocates of tenure reform
through state registration of individual titles to land and others who claim that customary or …

Property rights to land can be thought of as a web of interests, with many different parties
having a right to use, regulate, or manage the resource, which may be based on a range of …

Abstract The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat, 2003) estimated
that in 2001, 924 million people, about 32% of the world's urban population, lived in slums …

In this paper, we re-interpret three cases of research previously carried out in Mali, Niger
and South Africa in light of the recent debate about formalisation of land rights that has …

This Campbell systematic review examines the effect of interventions to strengthen land
property rights on outcomes such as investment, agricultural productivity and farmer …

Economists such as Hernando De Soto have argued that clearly defined property rights are
essential to capital formation and ultimately to economic growth and poverty alleviation. This …

Our purpose is to present and test a typology of land reform theories as a means of
understanding and interrogating the motives behind land reform and to better equip land …

In the global South, policies providing property titles to low‐income households are
increasingly implemented as a solution to poverty. Integrating poor households into the …