Equity in informal land delivery: Insights from Enugu, Nigeria

Africa’s middle class: building houses and constructing identities in the small town of Buea, Cameroon

“…The relative absence of academic work on middle-class house-building in Nigeria is unexpected (but see Agunbiade et al, 2013Agunbiade et al, , 2014Ikejlofor, 2006;Osili, 2004), but (given the scale of the challenges) the preoccupation with low-cost and public housing in Nigerian cities is well justified. There is, however, some very interesting work on housing and international migration in Senegal and Mali (e.g.…”

A neo-institutional economic critique of the system for allocating urban land and development rights in Nigeria

“…A more flexible system based on private use rights of allocated land but managed by a communal system of governance defined land and development rights and also enforced the use rights (Francis, 1984;Ikejiofor, 2006;Williams, 1992). Although the governing institutions are basically informal comparatively to the government system nonetheless they are less rigid, well understood and have evolved from prevailing experiences and challenges (Platteau, 1996).…”

“…Ikejiofor (2006) notes in his study of Enugu, Nigeria, that land in the city is held in the following proportions; owners of customary right, 80%, public sector, 10%, and private individuals, 10%.…”

Basic Land Security and Livelihood: A Study of Compensation and Social Security Policy for Land‐expropriated Peasants in China

“…Scholars mostly think highly of the land policy, which includes state and local interventions; however, the importance of land ownership for social security policy, especially the social security policy, varies depending on whether countries are un‐industrialised or post‐industrialised. As for the former, just like in non‐OECD countries, many current studies focus on specific measures: to investigate formal and informal land use and to make access to land as basic social security (Ikejiofor, ; Mooya and Cloete, ), increasing the legal security of land (Deininger and Songqing, ; Payne, , ; Khemro and Payne, ; Porio and Crisol, ), housing (Leckie, ), land issues (Ho and Spoor, , Miceli et al , ; Sikor, ), land allocation and consolidation (Gould, ; Lin, ; Niroula and Thapa, ). With Hernando de Soto's trace (de Soto, ), there is still a debate on formal property rights on land and capital formation.…”