This note reviews the role legal aid can play as a catalyst to empower and strengthen the livelihoods of the poor in a World Bank-funded project in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh (AP), the AP Rural Poverty Reduction Project. This note shows how land-related legal aid activities can be...

Over the past few decades, while land reform has made little headway in most of India, West Bengal has achieved notable land reform progress. This progress has occurred in three areas: the redistribution of agricultural land, the regulation of sharecropping relationships, and the distribution of...