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To improve their well-being, the poor in developing countries have used both collective action through formal and informal groups and property rights to natural resources. Collective Action and Property Rights for Poverty Reduction: Insights from Africa and Asia examines how these two types of institutions, separately and together, influence quality of life and how they can be strengthened to improve the livelihoods of the rural poor.The product of a global research study by the Systemwide Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi) of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, this book draws on case studies from East Africa and South and Southeast Asia to investigate how collective action and property rights have contributed to poverty reduction. The book extends the analysis of these institutions beyond their frequently studied role in natural resource management by also examining how they can reduce vulnerability to different types of shocks.Essays in the volume identify opportunities and risks present in the institutions of collective action and property rights. For example, property rights to natural resources can offer a variety of advantages, providing individuals and groups not only with benefits and incomes but also with assets that can counter the negative effects of shocks such as drought, and can make collective action easier. The authors also demonstrate that collective action has the potential to reduce poverty if it includes more vulnerable groups such as women, ethnic minorities, and the very poor. Preventing exclusion of these often-marginalized groups and guaranteeing genuinely inclusive collective action might require special rules and policies. Another danger to the poor is the capture of property rights by elites, which can be the result of privatization and decentralization policies; case studies and analysis identify actions to prevent such elite capture.

Poverty --- Right of property --- Community organization --- Ownership of property --- Private ownership of property, Right of --- Private property, Right of --- Property, Right of --- Property rights --- Right of private ownership of property --- Right of private property --- Right to property --- Civil rights --- Property --- CBOs (Community organization) --- Community-based organizations --- Community councils --- Community life --- Economic aspects --- Law and legislation --- Business. --- Economics. --- Political Science. --- Public Policy.

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"Why do some political leaders create and strengthen institutions such as title registries and land tribunals that secure property rights to land, while others neglect these institutions or destroy those that already exist? How do these institutions evolve once they have been established? This book answers these questions through spatial and temporal comparison of national and subnational cases from Botswana, Ghana, and Kenya, and, to a lesser extent, Zimbabwe. Onoma argues that the level of property rights security that leaders prefer depends on how they use land. However, the extent to which leaders' institutional preferences are translated into actual institutions depends on the level of leaders' capacity. Further, once established, these institutions through their very working can contribute to their own decline over time. This book is unique in revealing the political and economic reasons why some leaders, unlike others, prefer an environment of insecure rights even as land prices increase"--Provided by publisher.

Right of property --- Ownership of property --- Private ownership of property, Right of --- Private property, Right of --- Property, Right of --- Property rights --- Right of private ownership of property --- Right of private property --- Right to property --- Civil rights --- Property --- Law and legislation --- E-books --- Economics --- Possession (Law) --- Things (Law) --- Wealth --- Primitive property --- Social Sciences --- Political Science

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This treatise focuses directly on the concept of ownership, on the complex structure of property rights, and the relation between that structure and distributive justice.

Law of real property --- Legal theory and methods. Philosophy of law --- Property --- Economics --- Possession (Law) --- Things (Law) --- Wealth --- Law and legislation --- Property. --- E-books --- Right of property. --- Ownership of property --- Private ownership of property, Right of --- Private property, Right of --- Property, Right of --- Property rights --- Right of private ownership of property --- Right of private property --- Right of property --- Right to property --- Civil rights --- Primitive property

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This volume celebrates one of Canada's most distinguished social scientists and economics scholars. The book contains four essays, with comments, written to honour Gordon, with reminiscences by friends and colleagues from many universities in Canada and the U.S.

Welfare economics. --- Right of property. --- Economic policy. --- Gordon, Scott, --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- National planning --- State planning --- Ownership of property --- Private ownership of property, Right of --- Private property, Right of --- Property, Right of --- Property rights --- Right of private ownership of property --- Right of private property --- Right of property --- Right to property --- Law and legislation --- Gordon, H. Scott --- Gordon, Howard Scott, --- Economics --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy --- Civil rights --- Property --- Economic policy

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Property --- Right of property --- Public lands --- Common good --- History. --- Good, Common --- Public good --- Lands, Public --- Ownership of property --- Private ownership of property, Right of --- Private property, Right of --- Property, Right of --- Property rights --- Right of private ownership of property --- Right of private property --- Right to property --- Law and legislation --- Political science --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Justice --- Public interest --- Land use --- Public domain --- Crown lands --- Natural resources, Communal --- Civil rights --- Economics --- Possession (Law) --- Things (Law) --- Wealth --- Primitive property