India Infrastructure Report 2009: Land - a Critical Resource for Infrastructure

The IIR 2009: Land - A Critical Resource for Infrastructure presents one of the most critical issues in recent times that has caught the attention of policymakers and the general public. The salient features of this Report are: 1. land management strategies, 2. Land rights and acquisition: policy and processes, 3. conceptual framework for land use: private and government, 4. resettlement and rehabilitation, 5. documentation of land administration and compensation practices, 6. conflict resolution.

With the help of case studies of compensation practices in three countries, China, Ethiopia and Mozambique, and also from within India, IIR 2009 seeks to examine the reasons for land market distortions and explores ways to reduce them.