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The Fog of Entitlement
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.
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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