Property Rights, Collective Action, and Poverty: The Role of Institutions for Poverty Reduction

Found at: http://hdl.handle.net/10535/3981
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Type:	Working Paper
Author:	Di Gregorio, Monica; Hagedorn, Konrad; Kirk, Michael; Korf, Benedikt; McCarthy, Nancy; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth; Swallow, Brent M.
Date:	2008
Agency:	CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC
Series:	CAPRi Working Paper, no. 81
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10535/3981
Sector:	Theory Land Tenure & Use
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Subject(s):	institutions property rights collective action vulnerability poverty alleviation--models institutional analysis--IAD framework
Abstract:	"This paper presents a conceptual framework on how institutions of property rights and collective action can contribute to poverty reduction, including through external interventions and action by poor people themselves. The first part of the paper examines the initial conditions of poverty, highlighting the role of assets, risks and vulnerability, legal structures and power relations. The latter part investigates the decision-making dynamics of actors--both poor and non-poor--and how they can use the tangible and intangible resources they have to shape their livelihoods and the institutions that govern their lives. The paper concludes with a discussion of how attention to property rights and collective action can improve the understanding of outcomes in terms of changes in wellbeing."

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