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Hernando de Soto, eat your heart out

From Uganda, where some land owners really, really don't want to sell their land:

Finally, one of usual arguments for formal land titling is getting informal owners access to the credit market by letting them pony up their land for collateral. The potential downsides?

These are from Danish researcher Rasmus Hundsbæk's blog, which focuses on land affairs in East Africa.

Categories: Africa Aid Development