Land Markets : Promoting the Private Sector by Improving Access to Land

Land markets that allow access to land-and to buildings-through secure property rights, at transparent prices, and with efficient permitting processes and land tax systems are essential to a good business environment. Creating such markets, however...

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Main Authors: Muir, Russell, Shen, Xiaofang
Format: Viewpoint
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/10/6399239/land-markets-promoting-private-sector-improving-access-land
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11203
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Summary:Land markets that allow access to land-and to buildings-through secure property rights, at transparent prices, and with efficient permitting processes and land tax systems are essential to a good business environment. Creating such markets, however, can be a long, complex, politically charged process, especially where most land is untitled and where there are conflicting claims. But experience points to practical interim or step solutions that can have a positive impact and generate the political capital to reform the overall land market system.