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Collective action and property rights for poverty reduction : insights from africa and asia /

This volume examines how collective bargaining and property rights, separately and together, influence the well-being of the rural poor in Africa and Asia and how they can be strengthened to improve livelihoods.

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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Markelova, Helen; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth; Mwangi, Esther
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Publisher Address: Philadelphia, Pa. :
Publication Dates: [2012]
©2012
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
BUSINESS &amp > ECONOMICS > Development > Economic Development.
Community organization > Economic aspects > Africa.
Community organization > Economic aspects > Asia.
Poverty > Africa.
Poverty > Asia.
Right of property > Economic aspects > Africa.
Right of property > Economic aspects > Asia.
Business management.
Political Economics, other.
Social sciences.
Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste, Versicherungen.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812207873
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Summary: This volume examines how collective bargaining and property rights, separately and together, influence the well-being of the rural poor in Africa and Asia and how they can be strengthened to improve livelihoods.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (448 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: 17 illus.
ISBN: 9780812207873
Index Number: HC800
CLC: F113.9
Contents: Frontmatter --
Contents --
Figures --
Tables --
Boxes --
Foreword --
Acknowledgments --
Acronyms and Abbreviations --
1 Introduction and Overview /
2 Property Rights and Collective Action for Poverty Reduction: A Framework for Analysis /
3 Burial Societies in Rural Ethiopia /
4 Shocks, Groups, and Networks in Bukidnon, the Philippines /
5 Rural Institutions and Imperfect Agricultural Markets in Africa: Experiences from Producer Marketing Groups in Kenya /
6 Community Watershed Management in Semiarid India: The State of Collective Action and Its Effects on Natural Resources and Rural Livelihoods /
7 Enabling Equitable Collective Action and Policy Change for Poverty Reduction and Improved Natural Resource Management in the Eastern African Highlands /
8 The Role of Collective Action in Securing Property Rights for the Poor: A Case Study in Jambi Province, Indonesia /
9 The Transformation of the Afar Commons in Ethiopia: State Coercion, Diversification, and Property Rights Change am

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