Analysis of the Technical Efficiency of the Programme of Modernisation of the Land Tenure Services in a Developing Country

ABSTRACT

This paper measures the technical efficiency of land tenure services in Cameroon. From the method of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), we decompose the efficiency of the land tenure administration into pure technical efficiency and technical efficiency of scale. The data used is for a period of 8 years and it is from MINDLT and CAHF (2018). We obtain the following results: i) - the land tenure administration of Cameroon is suboptimal. ii) - the inefficiency observed is mostly due to inefficiency of scale. The results suggest that the rational management of human resources intervenes in habilitation procedures, the reinforcement of human capacities and the introduction of innovating technologies in the registration of land certificates.

KEYWORDS:

• Technical efficiency
• land tenure services
• modernisation
• land certificates

Notes

1. NIS represents the National Institute of Statistics of Cameroon.

2. According the Doing Business ranking (2017), Rwanda is considered as a reference in Africa in terms of reforms and progress in the improvement of the business environment. The index of the quality of land tenure administration of Rwanda is 28 on a scale from 0 to 30. It takes 12 days to obtain a land certificate in Rwanda with a registration cost that represents only 0,10% of the real value of the asset.

3. Ministry of Domain and Land Tenure .

4. In the case of the orientation of outputs, literature suggests that the scores should be between 1 and plus infinitif.

5. The divisional headquarters are considered as the capitals of these divisions.

6. Law n°2003-011 of 3 September 2003 on the general status of civil servants stipulates the rules of appointment and nomination of civil servants.