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Creating and securing ownership in Europe

2010

In Africa, most stakeholders believe that land tenure and registration systems were borrowed from Europe. As a matter of fact, the land tenure systems introduced in the late nineteenth century by colonialists in their respective colonies ...

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Decentralization in Mali: a constrained ”responsibility transfer“ process

For many observers, the decentralization policy in Mali is one of the most audacious ones in Africa, because of the high number of institutions created: 683 new ”communes“ (in addition to the 19 already existing), 52 ”cercles“, 8 ...

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Decentralized vs. local management of land tenure: The Niger case history

2011

In West Africa, decentralization of rural land tenure management systems is considered as the way forward by many actors. However, over a decade ago, Niger established through its Land Commission (COFO), an original system for the local ...

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Examples of the diversity of rights holders and rights to land and natural resources in West Africa

2011

‘Modern’ legal categories rarely take full account of the complexities of reality on the ground. Worse still, they sometimes lead to profound changes in social and economic relations, since providing security for one type of rights ...

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Land Tax

2011

Annual land tax is one of the oldest and simplest of taxes, yet it has long been neglected in West African countries where land ownership is still viewed as a privilege. In this paper we are considering what is still seen as a taboo ...