Rights and legal empowerment in eradicating poverty /
Banik, Dan,1969-
Farnham : Ashgate Pub.,
c2008.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rights, legal empowerment, and poverty : an overview of the issues / Dan Banik -- The political economy of legal empowerment of the poor / Arjun Sengupta -- Transforming good ideas into global action : the CLEP and the role of donors in the development discourse / Mona Elisabeth Brøther -- Constitutionalism in an insurgent state? : plurality and the rule of law in a post-crisis Bolivia / John-Andrew McNeish -- Rural 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 -- Women, property, 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.
Public welfare
Human rights
Social legislation
Poverty.