Land market in Albania: Unresolved property ownership rights

• Authors: Luciana Koprencka , Oltiana Muharremi
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

After the Independence of Albania in 1912, property ownership has gone through major reforms. During communism many agricultural lands were seized by the Agrarian Reform Law. In 1990, with the fall of communism there was a huge demographic movement of people from villages to urban areas, where they settled in lands that were used by the Cooperatives. This created a lot of problems with previous land owners whose land was seized and given to the Cooperativa. Today there is a problem with the rights to property ownership, and legal certificates of ownership.

Keywords

EN

agrarian reform; cooperatives; land fragmentation; reform law; informal area; legalization

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: Prague Development Center, Czech Republic
• Journal: Perspectives of Innovations, Economics and Business
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 41-44

Contributors

author

Luciana Koprencka

• Faculty of Economics, University of Vlora “Ismail Qemali”, Albania

author

Oltiana Muharremi

• Prague Development Center s.r.o., Bořivojova 1081 / 40, 130 00, Prague 3 - Žižkov, Czech Republic

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Identifiers

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.15208/pieb.2010.76