The Formalization of Urban Land Tenure in Developing Countries

Alain Durand Lasserve () and Harris Selod ()
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Alain Durand Lasserve: LAM - Les Afriques dans le monde - Université Montesquieu - Bordeaux 4 - Institut d'Études Politiques [IEP] - Bordeaux - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: 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.

Date: 2009
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Published in 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

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