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Beyond Ujamaa in Tanzania: Underdevelopment and an Uncaptured Peasantry
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Informal institutions and comparative politics: a research agenda
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Livelihoods and rural poverty reduction in Uganda
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Human population growth and global land-use/cover change
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Provisional notes on the postcolony
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Indigenous land rights systems in sub-Saharan Africa : a constraint on productivity?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used cross-sectional evidence from Ghana, Kenya, and Rwanda in 1987-88 to examine the question, are indigenous land rights systems in sub-Saharan Africa a constraint on productivity?