Rights and legal empowerment in eradicating poverty
By: [edited] by Dan Banik.
Contributors: Banik, Dan, 1969-
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780754674986
Subjects: Public welfare -- Law and legislation -- Developing countries; Human rights -- Developing countries; Social legislation -- Developing countries; Poverty
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Rights, legal empowerment, and poverty : an overview of the issues / Dan Banik; title: The political economy of legal empowerment of the poor / Arjun Sengupta; title: Transforming good ideas into global action : the CLEP and the role of donors in the development discourse / Mona Elisabeth Brøther; title: Constitutionalism in an insurgent state? : plurality and the rule of law in a post-crisis Bolivia / John-Andrew McNeish; title: Rural poverty, legal activism, and development in rural China / Susanne Brandtstädter; title: The access to justice challenge in Uganda / Donald Rukare; title: Legal empowerment and the right to food / Marc Cohen and Mary Ashby Brown; title: Are Africans culturally unsuited to property rights and the rule of law? : some reflections based on the Tanzanian case / Hernando de Soto; title: Formalisation of land and housing tenure to empower the poor : simple nostrum or complex challenge? / Edward Robbins; title: Women, property, and inheritance rights in Malawi / Asiyati L. Chiweza; title: "Not on our land!" : peasants' struggle against forced land acquisition in India's West Bengal / Kenneth Nielsen.