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Bangladesh is the most densely populated country in the world. Its 144,000 square kilometres are home to an estimated 150 million people. About 45 percent (2004) of them live below the national poverty line and around 36 percent are living on US$ 1 per day.
This technical guide provides strategies on how to strengthen, protect and promote legitimate tenure rights in spatial planning processes at the local, regional and national levels.
The present volume is part of a series of Land Tenure Studies produced by FAO’s Land Tenure Service of the Rural Development Division. Land tenure plays a vital role in achieving sustainable rural development.
Gender issues are often ignored in projects that aim to improve land tenure and land administration. To support land administrators in governments and their counterparts in civil society, this guide shows where and why gender inclusion is important in projects.
Rural property taxes can play a significant role in promoting sustainable rural livelihoods in transition countries in Central and Eastern Europe.
Increasingly land tenure institutions are required to support the decentralization of services to local governments. One expectation of decentralization is improved delivery of services by the level of government that is closest to the beneficiaries of those services.
Violent conflicts typically cause significant changes to land tenure and its administration. A widespread conflict
This guide is written for people who work in land administration and all those with an interest in land, land tenure and their governance.
Countries retain powers of compulsory acquisition in order to enable governments to acquire land for specific purposes.
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