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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | The Fog of Entitlement: Women’s Inheritance and Land Rights -Govind Kelkar

The Fog of Entitlement: Women’s Inheritance and Land Rights -Govind Kelkar

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published Published on Aug 16, 2014   modified Modified on Aug 16, 2014
-Economic and Political Weekly

The study examines the experience of women farmers who lack rights to land and related factors of production, and provides insights into a number of conditions that hamper rural women's right to agricultural land. Further, it explores how inheritance practices disfavour women, and those women who claim land encounter many institutional and non-institutional constraints. In conclusion, the paper suggests policy and practice measures for women's economic empowerment that may facilitate the process of closing gender gaps.

Govind Kelkar (govindk@landesa.org) is Senior Advisor, Landesa India, New Delhi.

A version of this paper was presented at the World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, Washington DC, 8-11 April 2013. The paper benefi ted from critical reviews and advice from Diana Fletschner, Robert Mitchell, Gregory Rake, Anirudh Brahmachari, Santosh Kumar Jha, and Ujithra Ponniah.

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Economic and Political Weekly, Vol-XLIX, No. 33, August 16, 2014, http://www.epw.in/special-articles/fog-entitlement.html


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