The paper is aimed at assessing the access to dispute resolution mechanisms faced by the poorest 20 percent of rural households experiencing land-titling related conflicts within a sample of seventeen developing middle and low income countries. The conclusions presented here are based on a...

This book analyses access to public and private dispute resolution mechanisms within a sample of low/middle human development index (HDI) nations by using a law and economics approach that takes into account supply and demand-related factors. An empirical model is proposed and tested covering 18...

Private standards are gaining in importance in global markets for high-value foods. We analyze and compare impacts of three sustainability oriented standards – Fairtrade, Organic, and UTZ – on the livelihoods of smallholder coffee farmers in Uganda. Using survey data and propensity score...

This study aimed at examining the determinants of parcel possession of Certificates of Customary Ownership in Uganda. We were particularly more interested in find out if Certificates of Customary Ownership are pro-poor−that is if they are possessed by parcels belonging to households...

Privatization of infrastructure services is often followed by stricter enforcement of quality standards, which raises costs, maintaining, or worsening the exclusion of the poor. The poor would get easier access to service, if the main provider was permitted to deviate from this uniform standard,...