The Gradual Erosion of the Social Security Function of Customary Land Tenure Arrangements in Lineage-based Societies

Insurance Against Poverty

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Platteau, Jean Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Access rules; Africa; Economic development; Land tenure arrangements; Rural societies; Social security; Village societies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920076884     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199276838.003.0013     Document Type: Chapter

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