Closing the gender land gap
The effects of land-titling for women in Peru
- Abstract
Formalization of land ownership in developing
countries tends to cement gender inequalities. In Peru we find the
opposite: A large scale survey show 43 % joint ownership for
titlede land compare to 39 % for untitled plots.However, it is more
than three times higher than the 13 % joint ownership in a similar
survey from 2000. Gender equality might have become even more
pronounced as joint ownership increases to 56% for the subsample of
titled male-headed couple household.
- Authors
- Henrik Wiig, Daniela Orge Fuentes
- Series
- Working Paper 2009:120
- Place
- Oslo
- Publisher
- Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research
- Year
- 2009
- ISBN
- 978-82-7071-816-0
- ISSN
- 801-1702
- Attached file
- 2009-120.pdf
- Project
- How formalization closed the gender gap in Peru and the impact on women's empowerment
