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CHAPTER 7
Land Sector Corruption
in Ethiopia
Tony Burns and Kate Dalrymple 1
Introduction
The fundamental nature of land, both socially and economically, implies
a unique and important role for the state. The land sector is particularly
susceptible to corruption and rent seeking. Various global studies of perception
of corruption highlight corruption in the land sector.
Land management and administration is typically implemented
through a chain of activities:
• Policy formulation
• Translation of policy into laws, regulations, and directives
• Creation of institutions and capacity to implement policies and
legislation
• Deployment of mechanisms to implement policy and legislation
(processes, procedures, manuals, and so on)
• Implementation of systems for monitoring and evaluation, which ideally
should feed back into policy formulation.
Although this chapter results from studies completed by January 2010, the process of checking,
reviewing, and securing agreement for publication was finally brought to conclusion
only in late 2011. The chapter is therefore put forward with the caveat that while it reflects
the situation at the time of the study, some details will have understandably changed.
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