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No Way To Deal With Slums, Bernadette Atuahene
No Way To Deal With Slums, Bernadette Atuahene
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Legal Title To Land As An Intervention Against Urban Poverty In Developing Nations, Bernadette Atuahene
Legal Title To Land As An Intervention Against Urban Poverty In Developing Nations, Bernadette Atuahene
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One intervention intended to ameliorate poverty and its subsidiary effects is the distribution of legal title to land to poor urban dwellers, otherwise known as land titling. Given the billions of dollars that the World Bank, country-based development agencies, regional development banks, and developing countries themselves have spent on land titling programs, it has become one of the most important property law issues confronting the developing world. Several countries have undertaken comprehensive urban land titling programs to transform the dwellings of those who live in the squalor of squatter settlements into assets recognized by the formal sector. This Article accepts …