The price of empowerment: can land titling programmes be gender-inclusive?

From:: Department for International Development
Published: 1 January 2013

Country:: Tanzania
Document Type:: Briefing
Theme:: Economic Growth
Authors:: Dercon, S., Sandefur, J., Deininger, K., Zeitlin, A., Collin, M., Ayelew, D.

Abstract

While many policymakers in sub-Saharan Africa are concerned with getting formal property rights into the hands of the poor, little is known about how to do so in an equitable, gender-inclusive manner. Through a randomized experiment, this research project offered households in Dar es Salaam conditional discounts to induce them to register women as land owners when purchasing a land title.

Citation

Ayelew, D.; Collin, M.; Deininger, K.; Dercon, S.; Sandefur, J.; Zeitlin, A. The price of empowerment: can land titling programmes be gender-inclusive? (2013) 4 pp.