The Mystery of Capital Formation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Women, Property Rights and Customary Law

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Property rights and the gender distribution of wealth in Ecuador, Ghana and India (2013, background): “8 On the British role in shaping customary law in Sub Saharan Africa, see [27].”
Land Registration, Governance, and Development : Evidence and Implications for Policy (2009, background): “Legal changes and land registration programs that take into account local realities and enforcement capacity can contribute to women’s social and economic empowerment (Deininger and Castagnini 2006; Joireman 2008).”
Contemporary processes of large-scale land acquisition in sub-Saharan Africa: legal deficiency or elite capture of the rule of law? (2013, background): “Those advancing these critiques have proposed more endogenous policy reform processes cognizant of the weaknesses of extant administrative capacities; ensuring women’s customary rights are assured during land registration and titling processes; making provisions for registering collective titles; ma”
Impacts of land certification on tenure security, investment, and land markets: evidence from Ethiopia (2008, background): “The latter can be of particular importance for groups, e.g., women, whose access to land was traditionally discriminated against (Joireman 2008).”
Using the Law to Change the Custom (2012, unknown): “Since @(2) "(f; ;v) @(vM )(2) 0 if dened, we obtain, using (35), that @ (2)me @(vM )(2) 0 if n <> " f; ; v or if Condition 5 or 6 holds.”