Williams, Shaun2012-08-132012-08-132011-02https://hdl.handle.net/10986/10901In countries where a large proportion of the total land area is held customarily, reform questions around land and development often tend to focus on the customary estate. Evidence from Solomon Islands suggests that a focus on public land holdings, even when they are relatively small in land area, can yield outsized benefits. Publicly owned land regularly includes economically valuable land and urban land on which development pressure is high. In Solomon Islands, as much as 10 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) may be affected by how effectively urban public land is governed.CC BY 3.0 IGOACCESS TO LANDAGRICULTURAL LANDAGRICULTUREARCHITECTUREBIDDINGCITIESCOMMERCIAL BANKSCORPORATE GOVERNANCEECONOMIC REFORMELECTRICITYHOUSINGINCOMEINFLATIONINVENTORYLABOR RELATIONSLAND ADMINISTRATIONLAND MANAGEMENTLAND OWNERSHIPLAND PRICESLAND REFORMLAND TAXESLAND TENURELANDLORDSLANDOWNERSLEASESLEASINGLEGISLATIONLOCAL GOVERNMENTMARKET VALUENATURAL RESOURCESPARTNERSHIPPRIVATE PROPERTYPRIVATE SECTORPROPERTY MANAGERSPROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTPUBLICPUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONPUBLIC HOUSINGPUBLIC LANDPUBLIC LANDSPUBLIC PROPERTYPUBLIC RESOURCESPUBLIC SECTORPUBLIC SERVANTSPUBLIC SERVICEPUBLIC SERVICESREAL ESTATEREAL ESTATE AGENTSREGIONAL GOVERNMENTSRENTSROADSRURAL DEVELOPMENTSTATE LAWTAXTAX REFORMTECHNICAL ASSISTANCETENANTSTENURESTREASURYURBAN LANDURBAN SETTLEMENTSWorld Bank10.1596/10901