African Land ~ WB on Governance Reform...

The World Bank has just released Securing Africa's land for shared prosperity: a program to scale up reforms and investments by Frank Byamugisha who writes...

"Despite its abundant agricultural land and natural resources, Sub-Saharan Africa

is still mostly poor and has been unable to translate its recent robust growth into rapid poverty reduction. These examples suggest that poor land governance -- the manner in which land rights are defined and administered -- may be the root of the problem. [...] For countries to boost governance, improved approaches and comprehensive policy reforms will need to be scaled up across the continent. This book suggests building a scaling-up program with 10 elements."