Empirical studies of land rights privatisation have tended to underemphasise the unintended impacts of land rights reform relative to establishing whether the predicted impacts have occurred. This article, in reviewing some of the unintended consequences of the 1998 Uganda Land Act, draws...

The enactment of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010, heralded a new era for communities who had been subjugated in the past when it came to ownership of property and particularly ownership of land. This article therefore discusses the place of community land in Kenya currently. Property rights and...

Despite the individualization of use rights in farming, land in rural China remains collectively owned. As villagers are entitled to an equal share of this common property resource, the latter is allegedly subject to frequent and village-wide reallocations in response to population growth---a...

A proposal is currently being drafted by the First Nations Tax Commission to create a national First Nations Land Title System (FNLTS) for reserve lands in Canada. This paper examines the implications of the FNLTS proposal for some economic development outcomes across diverse First Nations...

chapter Introducing land reform -- chapter 1 Goals -- chapter 2 Output, efficiency and growth goals: beyond the inverse relationship -- chapter 3 Land reforms: the types, and the classic paradigm -- chapter 4 Tenurial options: Tenancy reform, titling, patrialisation -- chapter 5 The terrible...

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...