What are the de facto implications of these de jure pro-poor changes in the land laws?
ELTAP (2007) found that compensation laws have not yet been effectively implemented. Government land expropriations and non- or minimal compensation is clearly anti-poor and favours investors. Illegal methods have often been used to evict poor households using police and even imprisonment with little opportunity for redress. b) It is too early to assess whether inheritance laws in reality will favour those dependent on the land and family members without other sources of income. c) It is also too early to see the impact of individual property ownership after marriage. It is more likely to favour men over women with the current virilocal marriage system. Exceptions may be female-headed households and households with only female children. Such individualised rights are likely to lead to more landlessness and more skewed land distribution. This may also stimulate more migration and possibly urbanisation. d) Allowing poor households to rent out all their land is clearly beneficial for the
