ABSTRACT
Although land-related administrative institutions vary from country to country, they are typically intended to fulfil similar roles and provide similar services. Some of the functional areas within which they operate include land titling and registration, land use planning, control, and monitoring, dispute resolution, valuation and taxation, surveying and mapping, credit and mortgage, insurance, agency and brokerage. The Civil Service in developing countries is larger, less productive, and costly given the delivery and production levels. At times, the main motivation for the existence of a large bureaucracy is frequently to create and redistribute rents to favoured groups of the population. If the institutions fail, productive and efficient land use and land transactions are hampered or simply fail to happen and the anticipated benefits either fail to materialize. The consensus building or structural reforms may include developing legal aid clinics, ensuring that judicial appointments are merit-based, and encouraging a public discussion about the law and its enforcement.
