Land Institutions to Address New Challenges in Africa: Implications for the World Bank’s Land Policy

doi:10.1596/1813-9450-10389

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Land Institutions to Address New Challenges in Africa: Implications for the World Bank’s Land Policy

dc.contributor.author	Deininger, Klaus
dc.contributor.author	Goyal, Aparajita
dc.date.accessioned	2023-04-05T14:45:07Z
dc.date.available	2023-04-05T14:45:07Z
dc.date.issued	2023-04-05
dc.description.abstract	Although land and associated property is a key part of national wealth and protecting rights to it is a key function of the state, Africa’s formal land institutions often still operate on regulations that barely changed since colonial times, risking to undermine public trust and leading to high levels of informality that make it difficult to support vibrant urban land and financial markets, control corruption, improve rural factor market functioning to empower women, foster structural change, and ensure sustainable management of public land. If an appropriate regulatory framework is in place, digital technology provides opportunities for African countries to broaden the range of rights that can be legally recognized, expand the type of contracts involving such rights that private parties can enter, reduce associated enforcement costs, and provide local and global public goods. Institutions such as the World Bank can create momentum for reform through globally comparable monitoring and help harness these opportunities by focusing interventions on providing analytical support to establish the policy and institutional environment to (i) document and enforce rights at scale; (ii) regulate land markets to ensure competition and deliver public goods including price information, land use planning to coordinate investment and avoid externalities, and tax land value gains to support local public services; and (iii) reduce the transaction cost for private parties to enter and enforce contracts involving immovable property and the uses to which it is put.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099813203302325392/IDU0bc9ee6050db8b049070bf840553ed3481508
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/1813-9450-10389
dc.identifier.uri	https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/39634
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Policy Research Working Papers; 10389
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.title	Land Institutions to Address New Challenges in Africa	en
dc.title.subtitle	Implications for the World Bank’s Land Policy	en
dc.type	Working Paper
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okr.crossref.title	Land Institutions to Address New Challenges in Africa: Implications for the World Bank’s Land Policy
okr.date.disclosure	2023-03-30
okr.date.lastmodified	2023-03-30T00:00:00Z	en
okr.doctype	Policy Research Working Paper
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
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okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/1813-9450-10389
okr.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-10389
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okr.region.administrative	Africa
okr.region.geographical	Africa
okr.topic	Communities and Human Settlements::Land Administration
okr.topic	Communities and Human Settlements::Land Use and Policies
okr.topic	Communities and Human Settlements::Land Information Systems
okr.topic	Private Sector Development::Land and Real Estate Development
okr.topic	Law and Development::Law and Gender
okr.unit	Office of the Chief Economist (AFECE)
okr.unit	Office of the Chief Economist (AFRCE)-210
okr.unit	DEC-Sustainability & Infrastruct (DECSI)