Empowering Women Through Equal Land Rights
Traditional customary land tenure systems often limit women’s land rights in Sub-Saharan Africa.In an ongoing experiment in rural Uganda, we offered households fully-subsidized land titles and basic information about the benefits of land titling.Providing additional gender information and making the offer conditional on female co-tilting raised the take up of joint titles to about 76 percent and 89 percent, respectively, without dampening overall demand for titling.
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Format: | Brief biblioteca |
Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019-04
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Subjects: | LAND RIGHTS, GENDER, PROPERTY RIGHTS, RURAL POVERTY, LAND TITLE, AFRICA GENDER POLICY, GENDER INNOVATION LAB, WOMEN AND PROPERTY RIGHTS, |
Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/472041554472618017/Empowering-Women-Through-Equal-Land-Rights-Experimental-Evidence-From-Rural-Uganda https://hdl.handle.net/10986/31513 |
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Summary: | Traditional customary land tenure
systems often limit women’s land rights in Sub-Saharan
Africa.In an ongoing experiment in rural Uganda, we offered
households fully-subsidized land titles and basic
information about the benefits of land titling.Providing
additional gender information and making the offer
conditional on female co-tilting raised the take up of joint
titles to about 76 percent and 89 percent, respectively,
without dampening overall demand for titling. |
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