Browsing Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences by Author "Cousins, Tessa"
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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
Cousins, Tessa; Hornby, Donna (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’?
Cousins, Ben; Cousins, Tessa; Hornby, Donna; Kingwill, Rosalie; Royston, Lauren; Smit, Warren (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 ...