Statutory versus Customary II

摘要

Of the roughly thirty million people living in Nepal, a majority belongs to peasant households and lives below the international poverty line of $1.25 a day. The peasant population has also, under former customary land tenure arrangements, been exploited and pauperised. Land related statutory acts introduced since 1951 have not brought security of rights for the actual cultivators of the land, and thus discourage investment in it. Thanks in part to institutional weaknesses, land administration services are today distrusted by the population. The author inventories these weaknesses and provides suggestions for solution.