City structure and informal property rights in West Africa
Selod, Harris & Lara Tobin
Discontent over tenure insecurity and bad land governance has become a generalized phenomenon in many West African cities where soaring land conflicts have combined with steady increases in land prices to make access to land and housing increasingly costly and difficult. This occurs in a context of rising demand for residential land in and around cities caused by various factors that include high demographic pressure, rural urban migration, the speculative strategies of agents anticipating urban spatial expansion and land value increases, investments in land from expatriates living in developed countries, and the diversion of household savings towards land in the absence of adequate savings institutions.
Event: Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2013
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