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   Making property rights accessible: social movements andlegal innovation in the Philippines

   January, 2005

   Brazil, Philippines, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Asia, Oceania

   property rights

   land registration

   land tenure

   property

   land rights

   land reform

   agrarian reform

   Today, many rural poor Filipinos are using state law to try to claim land rights. In spite of the availability of a much stronger set of legal resources than ever before, claiming legal land rights remains difficult. Some argue these difficulties are a reason to turn away from state-led land reform and toward a market-assisted land reform (MALR) model.