Using Administrative Data to Assess the Impact and Sustainability of Rwanda's Land Tenure Regularization

Ali, Daniel Ayalew ; Deininger, Klaus ; Duponchel, Marguerite

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: COMMON PROPERTY REGIME;    LAND RENTAL;    SLM;    FARMLAND;    LAND TAXES;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-7705
RP-ID  :  WPS7705

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Rwanda's completion, in 2012/13, ofa land tenure regularization program covering the entirecountry allows the use of administrative data to describeinitial performance and combine the data with householdsurveys to quantify to what extent and why subsequenttransfers remain informal, and how to address this. In2014/15, annual volumes of registered sales ranged between5.6 percent for residential land in Kigali and 0.1 percentfor agricultural land in the rest of the country; and US$2.6billion worth of mortgages were secured against land andproperty. Yet, informality of transfers in rural areasremains high. Decentralized service provision andinformation campaigns help reduce but not eliminate theextent of informality. A strategy to test the efficacy ofdifferent approaches to ensure full registration, scale uppromising ones, and rigorously monitor the effect of doingso is described.