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Blockchain-based property registries may help lift poor people out of poverty

  • Written by Nir Kshetri, Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
Many rural farmers in India lack clear ownership of the land they work and live on.AP Photo/Anupam Nath

Many developing countries don’t have a working system of tracking property rights, and what they do have can be fragile and incomplete. In Haiti, for instance, a large earthquake in 2010 destroyed all the municipal buildings that stored...

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