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Approaches to securing tenure have been dominated by debates about whether titling advances secure land tenure and development in developing countries or whether it is either ineffectual or detrimental to socially more relevant systems. While the policies of many developing countries, including South Africa, continue to support titling approaches to securing tenure, there is widespread confirmation in the literature that title can be problematic for poor people living in both urban and rural areas. Furthermore, with the rapid development of urban slums and the advance of cheaper information technologies other approaches to tenure are also emerging, which tend to sidestep the titling debate and examine what may be possible within a different land management structure.
