Social and economic impacts of land titling programs in urban and periurban areas: A short review of the literature

Urban Land Markets: Improving Land Management for Successful Urbanization

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 133-161

  Payne, Geoffrey ^a   Durand Lasserve, Alain ^b   Rakodi, Carole ^c  

^a Geoffrey Payne and Associates   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 77958009141     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8862-9_6     Document Type: Chapter

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