Will Formalising Property Rights Reduce Poverty in South Africa's 'Second Economy'? Questioning the Mythologies of Hernando de Soto

By B. Cousins, T. Cousins, D. Hornby, R. Kingwill, L. Royston, W. Smit. 2005

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• Customary vs Private Property Rights? Dynamics and Trajectories of Vernacular Land Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (2006, background): “The well-publicized and influential arguments of one of the Commission’s co-chairs, Hernan de Soto, in favour of formalizing poor people’s property rights (de Soto 2000) have prompted critical comment (Cousins et al. 2005), indicating that reform of customary land rights could become a prominent iss”