Property rights for poor can help cut global poverty

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UNITED NATIONS, June 4 (AFP): Granting property rights to the poor could help roll back global poverty, a report by an independent commission said here yesterday.

The study by the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor stressed that giving farmers titles to the land they work on can help cut poverty and increase productivity.

"If the poor have titles to their land they can in fact become active participants in the economies of their countries and really help to bring their countries out of poverty and themselves out of poverty," said US former secretary of state Madeline Albright, a co-chair of the panel.