Land administration reform : indicators of success and future challenges

This paper sets out a framework for a set of indicators and reviews the critical issues in land administration, with comparisons drawn from both within and across the regions. The report sets out a global synthesis of the 17 country case studies, regional report; reviews land administration principles, and the context for projects to strengthen land administration systems. It provides the situation in the four regions as well as a brief overview of the situation in the 17 country case studies. One of the potential shortcomings of describing past experience is that critical issues may be systematically overlooked. To remedy this, the report delivers a systematic discussion of future challenges in the development of more efficient and effective land administration systems.

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