Global experiences in land registration and titling
Marquardt, Mark A.
Throughout the world governments seek social stability and sustainable economic performance for their countries and their people. In market oriented economies countries with different histories, cultures, and environments share common aspirations for certainty and for growth and development that is economically sound, ecologically sustainable, and socially fair. A framework of land and property laws that recognize the rights and duties of the individual, but also the shared concerns of the wider community, is essential if these aspirations are to be realized (UNECE 2005a). The recognition that land, and its associated resources, is the source of all wealth lies at the heart of good government and effective public administration. No country can sustain stability within its boundaries, nor economic development within the wider world, unless it has a land rights policy that promotes internal confidence between its people, its commercial enterprises, and its government. States that prosper promote widespread and secured private ownership of land as a foundation of social and economic policy.
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