This thesis is about the relationship between property rights and development. The objective of the paper is to take a look at Zimbabwe’s relationship between property rights and development and questions the relationship that these two have. It argues globalization to be the best condition for fast pace development. Mixed research methods were applied in this research. In Zimbabwe’s case, it finds an association between property rights and economic development. Furthermore, enforcement of property rights as theory suggests, increases investment for the rich and they doesn’t do so for the poor. It also finds that over a period of 30-40 years a conflict arises over how resources associated with land are distributed linked to how the State suppresses the emergence of the market. To avoid this repeated occurrence the paper argues for a dismantling of a dual institutional system that is traced back from the colonial times through setting institutions and capacity building at communal level to enable the poor people to benefit from the fruits of the global economy.

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