Dans un contexte de mobilisation politicienne de l'ivoirité et de mise en place d'un nouveau
code foncier «nationaliste», les zones rurales ont vu, ces dernières années, s' accroître la …

The complexity of land tenure in West Africa is the result of the coexistence of several
systems (whether customary-sometimes with Islamic influence-or state), none of which is …

Les implications de la situation actuelle sur les enjeux ordinaires de la vie sociale et
politique dans les campagnes sont examinées à partir de l'étude de cas d'un village et de sa …

This article focuses on the interactions between state and community mechanisms in the
design and delivery of a titling program and a land market reform in rural Mexico. Whereas …

This paper shows that formalizing private property rights has a positive effect on the
propensity to respect the property of others. We study a recent large-scale land tenure …

This book sheds light on a wide variety of tenure situations and sociopolitical backgrounds
in West Africa. Part 1 of the book (chapters 2-9) provides both overall and site-specific …

The formalization of 'informal'customary land rights is at the core of current rural land policies
in Africa. The dubious impacts of such policies on agricultural production, and the …

Since 2000, many African countries have adopted land tenure reforms that aim at
comprehensive land registration (or certification) and titling. Much work in political science …

Land law reform through registration and titling is often viewed as a technocratic, good-
governance step toward building market economies and depoliticising land transactions. In …

I study the first case of a large-scale land tenure reform implemented as a randomized
control-trial in rural Benin to isolate the effects of formalizing property rights on trust and …