Case Study: Property Rights and Stability in Afghanistan
ISP Fellow John Dempsey describes how a brief assignment to resettle refugees turned into years of property rights work in Afghanistan.
ISP Fellow John Dempsey describes how a brief assignment to resettle refugees turned into years of property rights work in Afghanistan.
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Delineating one person鈥檚 property from another鈥檚 is a serious technical challenge and a prerequisite for granting secure legal titles.
Property rights – the clear articulation of who has what rights to which property – are indispensable for prosperous societies.
A working list of technologies, the ways they facilitate property rights formalization, and some examples of how they are being used.