This book provides a significant contribution to the literature on land reform in various African contexts. While the economic evidence is clear that secure property rights are a necessary condition for catalysing broad-based economic development, the governance process by which those rights are secured is less clear. This book details the historical complexity of land rights and the importance of understanding this history in the process of trying to improve tenure security. Through a combination of single country case studies, comparative case studies and regional comparisons, the book is unequivocal that good governance is paramount for improving the performance of land reform programmes. All attempts at moving towards more formal secure tenure require congruence with informal norms, beliefs and values, and a set of clear systems and processes to avoid corruption and unintended negative consequences.
| ISBN: | 9783030832803 |
| Publication date: | 3rd January 2023 |
| Author: | Horman Chitonge |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 339 pages |
| Genres: |
Economic geography Central / national / federal government Regional geography |
This book provides a significant contribution to the literature on land reform in various African contexts. While the economic evidence is clear that secure property rights are a necessary condition for catalysing broad-based economic development, the governance process by which those rights are secured is less clear. This book details the historical complexity of land rights and the importance of understanding this history in the process of trying to improve tenure security. Through a combination of single country case studies, comparative case studies and regional comparisons, the book is unequivocal that good governance is paramount for improving the performance of land reform programmes. All attempts at moving towards more formal secure tenure require congruence with informal norms, beliefs and values, and a set of clear systems and processes to avoid corruption and unintended negative consequences.
Land Tenure Challenges in Africa features in the following genres: Economic geography, Central / national / federal government, Regional geography
Land Tenure Challenges in Africa is available in Paperback
Land Tenure Challenges in Africa was written by Horman Chitonge and published by Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Land Tenure Challenges in Africa has 339 pages
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