Assessing the formal land market and deformalization of property in St. Lucia

Land Use Policy

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 494-501

  Barnes, Grenville ^a   Griffith Charles, Charisse ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Formal land market; Land tenure; Property formalization; Property registry; St. Lucia; Theory of property rights

Indexed keywords

LAND MARKET; LAND RIGHTS; LAND TENURE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LESSER ANTILLES; SAINT LUCIA; WINDWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES];

EID: 33847115701     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2006.08.001     Document Type: Article

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