Land Administration Success Story; the World Bank Collaboration in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Mika-Petteri Torhonen

The World Bank has funded land reform, land administration, and land management projects in the Europe and Central Asia region (ECA) since the early 1990s. The region comprises the 15 countries of the former Soviet Union, the former socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe, and Turkey. The 1991 dissolutions of the Soviet Union and Republic of Yugoslavia catalyzed unprecedented political, economic, and social changes in ECA. The dissolutions and resulting economic transition launched a wave of massive reforms in economic systems?from command to market-based economies?transforming institutions, processes, attitudes, and fundamental concepts of individual and organizational behavior across the region. Both the privatization of land and property assets and their efficient management and mobilization in the credit markets have been at the center of the transitional reforms to date. During this period, the World Bank has funded 42 land projects in 24 ECA countries in support of the land and property sector. These projects have successfully implemented a vast variety of reforms?in land, land administration, and land management1? that many countries in other regions are undertaking today.

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