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The Gradual Erosion of the Social Security Function of Customary Land Tenure Arrangements in Lineage-Based Societies

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  • Platteau, Jean-Philippe

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Paper provided by World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) in its series WIDER Working Paper Series with number 026.

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Length: 34 pages
Date of creation: 2002
Handle: RePEc:unu:wpaper:dp2002-26
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Keywords: Land tenure; Informal insurance ; Equity; Common property;

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  1. Sindzingre, Alice, 2005. "Explaining Threshold Effects of Globalization on Poverty: An Institutional Perspective," WIDER Working Paper Series 053, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).

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