The Formalization of Urban Land Tenure in Developing Countries

Alain Durand Lasserve (1) , Harris Selod (2, 3, 4, 5)

1 LAM - Les Afriques dans le monde
2 PSE - Paris School of Economics
3 Banque Mondiale
4 CREST - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique
5 LEA - Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquée

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat, 2003) estimated that in 2001, 924 million people, about 32% of the world's urban population, lived in slums. This figure could reach 1.7 billion by 2020--and 2.8 billion by 2030 (Lopez Moreno, 2003). Case studies in developing countries usually estimate that between 20 and 90% of a city's population live in informal or illegal settlements. These figures are debatable, given the criteria for defining slums (UN-Habitat, 2003). Still, they suggest the magnitude of the problem and its alarming dynamics.

Domaines: Economies et finances

Alain Durand Lasserve, Harris Selod. The Formalization of Urban Land Tenure in Developing Countries. S.V. Lall, M. Freire, B. Yuen, R. Rajack, J.-J. Helluin. Urban Land Markets: improving Land Management for Successful Urbanization, Springer, pp.101-132, 2009. ⟨hal-00813117⟩