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Securing Africa's land for shared prosperity : a program to scale up reforms and investments /

This is the first book on land administration and reform in Sub-Saharan Africa, and is highly relevant to all developing countries around the world. It provides simple practical steps to turn the hugely controversial subject of "land grabs" into a development opportunity by improving land...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Byamugisha, Frank
Autor Corporativo: World Bank
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, ©2013.
Colección:Africa development forum.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Abbreviations; Overview; The Challenge; The Opportunities; The Key to Leveraging Land for Development: Scaling Up Reforms and Investments; Tables; 0.1 Key Elements of and Pathways to Scaling Up Land Administration in Sub-Saharan Africa; Who Does What to Scale Up?; 0.2 Scaling Up Land Administration: The Role of Key Players in Sub-Saharan Africa; Benefits of Scaling Up Comprehensive Reforms and Investments; Note; References; 1 Introduction; The Historical Context.
  • Global Experiences and the Piloting of Innovations in Sub-Saharan AfricaReadiness to Scale Up to Meet Demand; 1.1 Number of Doing Business Reforms Making It Easier to Register Property, 2005-11; Boxes; 1.1 The Voluntary Guidelines on Governance of Tenure; Objectives and Structure of the Book; Note; References; 2 The Impact of Documenting Land Rights on Investment and Productivity; Experiences with Registration of Communal Land Rights; 2.1 Legalizing and Registering Communal Rights in Ghana, Mozambique, and Tanzania.
  • 2.1 Unit Costs of Surveying Community Land Boundaries in Ghana, Mozambique, and Tanzania2.2 Legalizing and Registering Communal Rights in Mexico; Experience with Systematic Registration of Individual Land Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa; Impacts of Land Rights Documentation on Agricultural Investments and Productivity; Notes; References; 3 Land Reforms for Reducing Poverty in Rural and Urban Areas; Experiences with Redistributing Agricultural Land; 3.1 Redistributing Agricultural Land in Malawi and South Africa.
  • 3.1 Impacts of Malawi's Pilot Community-Based Rural Land Development Project, 2005-09Experiences with Regularizing Land Tenure in Urban Informal Settlements; 3.2 Land Tenure Regularization Experiences in Kenya, Lesotho, and Tanzania; Reforming Land Rental Markets to Provide Land Access to the Poor and Promote Transformational Growth; Land Reforms and Interventions Promoting Gender Equity; 3.3 Government Intervention and Rental Markets in Ethiopia and Uganda; 3.4 Successful Land Reforms and Women's Land Rights in Ethiopia and Rwanda; Notes; References.
  • 4 Land Administration for Good Governance and Conflict ManagementManaging Conflict by Building Competent and Impartial Institutions for Resolving Land Disputes; Strengthening Governance and Property Rights by Improving Land Acquisition Laws and Procedures; 4.1 Land Acquisition and Compensation in Ghana; Strengthening Management of Public Land and Reducing Corruption by Creating Inventories of Government Land; 4.2 Challenges and Opportunities for State Land Inventories to Improve Land Management in Ghana and Uganda.