Urban Land Tenure and Property Rights in Developing Countries
A review
This review surveys the extensive international literature on the subject. It proposes a typology which includes statutory, customary and unauthorized tenure systems, as a basis for assessing existing problems and formulating appropriate policies. It concludes with recommendations for improving tenure security which maximize benefits to the poor and minimize market distortion.
Published: 1997
Pages: 80
eBook: 9781780444437
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| Acknowledgements | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Preface | |||
| I. Introduction | |||
| II. Systems of land tenure and | |||
| property rights | |||
| Customary tenure and property rights | |||
| Private land tenure and property | |||
| Framework of tenure and property | |||
| rights | |||
| de facto security - no tenure | |||
| Official recognition - no title | |||
| Land rental | |||
| Occupancy and use rights | |||
| Communal or co-operative | |||
| ownership | |||
| Customary ownership | |||
| Instruments for improving tenure in | |||
| extra-legal settlements | |||
| Public land ownership or control 5 | |||
| Religious concepts of land tenure and 5 | |||
| property rights | |||
| Indigenous and imported tenure 5 | |||
| concepts | |||
| Contemporary urban tenure systems 6 | |||
| Criteria for assessing tenure and 10 | |||
| property rights | |||
| III. National policy issues 11 | |||
| Introduction 11 | |||
| Policies and national land ownership 11 | |||
| Policy in countries with private land 13 | |||
| markets | |||
| Policy in countries with customary 14 | |||
| land systems | |||
| Policies and plural land tenure 16 | |||
| National tenure policy options 17 | |||
| Freehold 17 | |||
| Conditional freehold 18 | |||
| Leasehold 18 | |||
| Other tenure options 19 | |||
| Tenure and access to credit 20 | |||
| Substitutes for full tenure 21 | |||
| Administration of tenure and 21 | |||
| property rights | |||
| Tenure and land use 24 | |||
| Tenure, housing investment and cost 25 | |||
| Improving tenure systems 27 | |||
| IV. Property rights in extra-legal 30 | |||
| settlements | |||
| Introduction 30 | |||
| V. The improvement of traditional 39 | |||
| tenure arrangements | |||
| Introduction 39 | |||
| Colonial responses 40 | |||
| Recent government responses 40 | |||
| Government acquisition and 42 | |||
| development | |||
| Development by customary owners 42 | |||
| Development by private 43 | |||
| developers | |||
| Public and private sector joint 43 | |||
| ventures | |||
| Conclusions 44 | |||
| VI. Conclusions 46 | |||
| Tenure, rights and urban 46 | |||
| management | |||
| Policy objectives 47 | |||
| Improving land market efficiency 48 | |||
| through tenure policy | |||
| Improving equity through tenure 49 | |||
| policy | |||
| Tenure policy and access to credit 49 | |||
| Tenure policy and administrative 50 | |||
| capability | |||
| Future research and the role of 50 | |||
| international funding agencies | |||
| Annexe: An outline typology of land 52 | |||
| tenure and property rights | |||
| Glossary of terms 55 | |||
| Bibliography 58 |
Geoffrey Payne
Geoffrey Payne is a housing and urban development consultant based in London. He is author of Making Common Ground: Public-private Partnerships in Land for Housing also published by Practical Action Publishing.
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