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Women’s inheritance and property rights constitute one of the main areas of focus for women’s movements in developing countries. Strengthening women’s legal position in these areas is an important and effective means to decrease poverty and increase gender equality, and a crucial vehicle to accelerate progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. To illustrate the potential impact of legislative changes and their enforcement on the achievement of the MDGs in developing countries, this chapter presents two in-depth case studies from Rwanda and Ethiopia.