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Leaping the fissures: Bridging the gap between paper and real practice in setting up common property institutions in land reform in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2002)
New common property institutions (CPIs) were created in South Africa soon after 1994 to enable self-constituted groups of people a choice about how they wished to acquire, hold and manage land. They were to provide rural ...
Will formalising property rights reduce poverty in South Africa’s ‘second economy’?
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2005)
De Soto’s influential book The mystery of capital offers a simple yet beguiling message: capitalism can be made to work for
the poor, through formalising their property rights in houses, land and small businesses. This ...