Rights and legal empowerment in eradicating poverty / 
edited by Dan Banik 
 - Farnham, England ;  Burlington, VT :  Ashgate Pub.,  c2008 
 - ix, 255 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index 
<br/><br/>Rights, legal empowerment, and poverty : an overview of the issues / Dan Banik -- The political economy of legal empowerment of the poor / Arjun Sengupta -- Legal empowerment as a new concept in development : transforming good ideas into global action / Mona Elisabeth Brther -- Constitutionalism in an insurgent state : rethinking legal empowerment of the poor in a divided Bolivia / John-Andrew McNeish -- Poverty, legal activism, and development in rural China / Susanne Brandtstadter -- The access to justice challenge in Uganda / Donald Rukare -- Legal empowerment and the right to food / Marc Cohen and Mary Ashby Brown -- Are Africans culturally unsuited to property rights and the rule of law? Some reflections based on the Tanzanian case / Hernando de Soto -- Formalisation of land and housing tenure to empower the poor : simple nostrum or complex challenge? / Edward Robbins --  The challenges of promoting legal empowerment in developing countries : women's land ownership and inheritance rights in Malawi / Asiyati L. Chiweza --'Not on our land!' : peasants' struggle against forced land acquisition in India's West Bengal / Kenneth Nielsen 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780754674986 (hardcover : alk. paper)  RM321.20 0754674983 (hardcover : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Public welfare--Law and legislation--Developing countries<br/>Human rights--Developing countries<br/>Social legislation--Developing countries<br/>Poverty