Shelter, poverty and African revolutionary socialism: Human settlements in Guinea Bissau

Abstract

This report is part of the third stage in a series of surveys on land, housing and human settlements policies in selected countries of the Third World. The report consists of four chapters. The first is a general introduction to the country including a brief overview of its geography and of its history. The second chapter assesses the country's economic performance since independence and examines recent changes in housing and living conditions. Chapter 3 examines economic and development policies from the last years of the colonial administration to the present. Chapter 4 describes traditional land tenure patters and examines State policies which relate explicitly to land, housing and human settlements