The uncomfortable truth about land disputes in Bangladesh: Insights from a household survey |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Senior Economist, Policy Research Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh;2. Economist, Policy Research Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh;1. School of Geosciences, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA;2. Holon Institute of Technology, Israel;3. University of Central Oklahoma, Ada, Oklahoma, USA;4. Regional Delegation of State Property & Land Tenure, University of Buea, Cameroon;1. School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Avenue, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province 210023, China;2. School of Planning, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada;3. China Land Surveying and Planning Institute, 37 West Guanyingyuan, Beijing 100035, China;1. Chinese Academy of Housing and Real Estate, Zhejiang University of Technology, China;2. School of Management, Zhejiang University of Technology, China;3. School of Management, Chinese Academy of Housing and Real Estate, Zhejiang University of Technology, China;4. Wenlan School of Business, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China |
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| Abstract: | This research investigates three types of land disputes using a survey of 1050 household from 14 districts spanning across all 7 administrative division of Bangladesh. Moreover, not only we undertake a descriptive evaluation of the survey to understand the severity of land disputes within our sample, we empirically explore the role of land and household factors to understand what makes some land parcels more prone to disputes than others. Furthermore, four interesting findings emerge from our estimations. First, the base line results indicate that approximately 17.7% households had or have disputes in one of their land parcels. This means approximately one in five households in our sample is or was suffering from land dispute(s). Second, approximately half of all land parcels are maintained through un-registered documents, especially for inherited land parcels. This is remarkably low if we compare the state of land registrations to other countries. Third, households with ‘registered’ land parcels on average experience both lower pending disputes and fear of future disputes. On the whole, while we do not attribute causation to our estimates, these correlations motivate further empirical assessments, so that we can improve our understanding of the state of land disputes in Bangladesh. |
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| Keywords: | Land Dispute Property Dispute Socio-economic |
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