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    Compulsory Land Acquisition in Ghana - Policy and Praxis

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    Authors
    Larbi, Wordsworth Odami
    Antwi, Adarkwah
    Olomolaiye, Paul
    Issue Date
    2004
    
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    Compulsory land acquisition powers have been used extensively in Ghana since colonial times, as the main means of the state's access to land for development. The underlying principle is supremacy of the state over people and their private property, and is aimed at providing land for public and social amenities, correcting economic and social inefficiencies in private market operations and providing greater equity and social justice in the distribution of land. The paper analyses compulsory acquisition practice in Ghana in the light of these principles. It argues that few of the presumed principles have been met. Rather compulsory land acquisition has resulted in adverse socio-economic consequences including in landlessness, poverty and heightened tension in state-community relationship. The paper advocates for a new legal and institutional environment for employing compulsory acquisition powers.
    Citation
    Land Use Policy, 21(2): 115-127
    Publisher
    Amsterdam: Elsevier
    Journal
    Land Use Policy
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/2436/29333
    DOI
    10.1016/j.landusepol.2003.09.004
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    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VB0-4B9555D-2&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=8f562ba1f4c42f01b3e3065682af5ed1
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    Journal article
    Language
    en
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    Co-author Dr. Larbi was seconded as a Visiting Research Fellow from the Ministry of Lands and Forestry in Ghana and co-author Dr. Antwi was subsequently recruited by the DFID and the Government of Ghana to play a leading role in a £3M DFID project examining land holding titles by Ghanaian Chiefs.
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    02648377
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1016/j.landusepol.2003.09.004
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