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| Roy, Kartik C.; Tisdell, Clement A.. |
| This paper examines the importance of property rights in women’s empowerment in rural India. Arguments justifying the need for granting property rights to women are presented and the distinction is made between legal (formal) and customary (informal) rights. The ineffectiveness of legal right in absence of customary rights has been discussed. Customary rights also become ineffective due to other institutional impediments. These impediments have been discussed. The results of extensive field work in rural West Bengal and Orissa have been presented to illustrate the pattern of development process that poor rural women want and in which the property right is only one component, not the only component. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Gender Inequality; Women's Empowerment; India; Property Rights; Community/Rural/Urban Development. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/100038 |
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| Tisdell, Clement A.; Roy, Kartik C.; Ghose, Ananda. |
| Reports on results of a survey, completed in 2000, of wives in three villages in the Phulbani district, Orissa, India. These villages are dominated by the Kondh scheduled tribe but some also contain members of the scheduled caste, called Dombs in Orissa. The article reports on the total responses and comparative responses of these groups to a structured questionnaire. The article provides background information for the villages surveyed, and reports information in relation to wives and their families about property rights, assets and incomes, economic conditions and survival strategies, aspects of credit, production and marketing, social dynamics and education. In addition, children’s affairs, including the treatment and entitlements of female and male... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Gender Inequality; Children; India; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Institutional and Behavioral Economics. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/100213 |
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