Search for dissertations about: "Women’s property rights"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the words Women’s property rights.

2. 1. Changing Customary Land Tenure Regimes in Tanzania : The case of women's land rights in matrilineal and patrilineal communities

   Author : Jenesta Aikaeli Elisa Urassa; Jenny Paulsson; John Lupala; Peter Ekbäck; Faustin Maganga; KTH; []
   Keywords : customary land tenure; property rights; legislations; titling; women; sedvanerätt till mark; markrättigheter; lagstiftning; äganderätt; kvinnor; Fastigheter och byggande; Real Estate and Construction Management;

   Abstract : Customary land tenure is a dominant system in agrarian societies and in Africa generally,which is evolving from communal to individual regimes in response to socio-economicissues. Various studies have paid attention to economic incentives of shifting communaltenure into private property, while ignoring social implication of such changes. READ MORE

4. 2. Women's Access to Land in Tanzania : The Case of the Makete District

   Author : Kerbina Moyo; Peter Ekback; Walter de Vries; Jenny Paulsson; E. August Rosnes; Alexandra Weitkamp; Jesper M. Paasch; KTH; []
   Keywords : access to land; women; property rights; customary law; customary land tenure; Real Estate and Construction Management; Fastigheter och byggande;

   Abstract : Access to land is crucial for combating discrimination. Women who are denied such access tend to be disadvantaged, a pattern that results in economic powerlessness. Tanzana is among the most undeveloped nations in the world, where gender inequalities with respect to accessing land are central problems. READ MORE

5. 3. Risk, Relative Standing and Property Rights: Rural Household Decision-Making in China

   Author : Ping Qin; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Choice experiment; China; Field experiment; Forestry; Household decision-making; Inequality; Ignoring attributes; Investment; Relative standing; Risk; MWTP; Property rights.;

   Abstract : Paper 1 examines the concern for relative standing among rural households in China. We used a survey-experimental method to measure to what extent poor Chinese farmers care about their relative income and found that the respondents cared to a high degree. READ MORE

6. 4. Equality before custom? - A study of property rights of previously disadvantaged women under land reform and communal tenure in post-apartheid South Africa

   Author : Annika Rudman; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Gender equality; Customary law; Land reform; Communal tenure; South Africa; Traditional leadership; Africa; Feminism Restitution of land rights; Women’s property rights; Poverty reduction and development;

   Abstract : Based on legal primary and secondary sources as well as text based and secondary data, Equality before custom? explores the relationship between statutory law and customary law in relation to previously disadvantaged women’s access to land through land reform, in post-apartheid South Africa. With the point of departure in this new constitutional order, the position of official customary law and living custom in land reform and communal land tenure is examined. READ MORE

7. 5. Life after death : The diffusion of Swedish life insurance - Dynamics of financial and social modernization 1830-1950

   Author : Liselotte Eriksson; Magnus Lindmark; Robin Pearson; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; economic history; life insurance; married women s property rights; industrial life insurance; funeral cost; sales promotion; policyholder; Sweden; culture; financial system; women; ekonomisk historia; Economic History;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to understand the diffusion process of Swedish life insurance during the period c. 1830-1950, with the specific aim to understand financial modernization and social mobilization as reflected in the diffusion of life insurance to less well-to-do classes and women. READ MORE