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Land Registration, Governance, and Development: Evidence and Implications for Policy
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The developmental impact of institutions to establish and maintain secure property rights to land has been a subject of much debate. The authors review the literature on the impact of land administration interventions in specific contexts, highlighting the dependence of outcomes on the governance environment, the effectiveness of the state apparatus, and the distribution of socio-economic power. There is evidence, albeit not uniform, of enhancement of tenure security through land registration with benefits manifesting themselves in higher levels of investment and productivity and a reduced need to defend land rights. Land registration has also been shown to increase activity in land rental markets, leading to higher efficiency overall. Evidence of improved access to credit, due to formalization of land rights, is scant. Even in situations where land registration had positive benefits, the literature contains little rigorous analysis of cost-effectiveness and long-term sustainability of impacts. The authors conclude that formalization of land rights should not be viewed as a panacea and that interventions should be decided only after a careful diagnosis of the policy, social, and governance environment. If intervention is justified, the performance of land administration systems needs to be benchmarked in terms of coverage, cost-effectiveness, and quality of service provision.
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“The link between tenure security and land-related investment is well established in the literature (Deininger and Feder 2009).”
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“But landownership can enhance access to credit only if it is documented and easily verifiable through a public land registry underpinned by a robust LIS as described in the case study in chapter 6 (Deininger and Feder 2009).”
From Agricultural Land Redistribution and Land Administration in Sub-Saharan Africa: Case Studies of Recent Reforms (2014) · cites this paper as Deininger and Feder 2009
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“This is not the case for the vast majority of the rural landholders and land market participants especially in SSA (Deininger and Feder 2009).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Deininger, K., & Feder, G.
- Corresponding author
- Deininger, K.
- ORCID
- Deininger, K.
- Venue
- The World Bank Research Observer
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2009-06-11
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 233-266
- ISSN
- 0257-3032 (ISSN-L)
- 1564-6971
- OpenAlex
- W2059536435
- Cited by
- 387
- References
- 110
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 12.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- papers.ssrn.com
- Locations
- The World Bank Research Observer (publishedVersion)
- SSRN Electronic Journal (submittedVersion)
- CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Land Rights and Reforms
- Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Social Sciences › Geography, Planning and Development › Land Use and Management
- Keywords
- land registration, land tenure security, property rights, land administration, governance, state capacity, land rental markets, access to credit, land formalization, cost-effectiveness
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