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Author Joireman, Sandra Fullerton

Title Where there is no government : enforcing property rights in common law Africa / Sandra F. Joireman
Published New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 208 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction : land, law, and social welfare -- Colonization and the myth of the customary -- "Under the circumstances, we do what we can" : entrepreneurial bureaucrats and the allocation of property rights -- Property rights enforcement by other means : the role of non-governmental organizations -- Private enforcement of property rights : the demand for specialists in violence -- In search of order : state systems of property rights enforcement and their failings -- Drawing conclusions
Summary In sub-Saharan Africa, property rights law is an especially potent source of instability. This book is at once an authoritative and powerful account of the central dilemma in Africa, and a prescription for addressing it
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- Africa, English-speaking
Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- Ghana
Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- Kenya
Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- Uganda
Land tenure -- Law and legislation
English-speaking Africa
Ghana
Kenya
Uganda
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199897209
0199897204