WEBSITE INTRODUCTION: Across the Mekong region, ‘development’ has become synonymous with rapid economic growth, to be achieved through predominantly large-scale, private investments. The development model promoted by the region’s governments prioritizes trade and investment liberalization, and privatization. Private investment is sought in virtually every sector of the economy from energy, oil, minerals, agriculture and food processing to education, health, tourism, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, transportation and urban infrastructure.

Decreto Legislativo que aprueba la Ley Marco de Adquisición y Expropiación de inmuebles,transferencia de inmuebles de propiedad del Estado, liberación de Interferencias y dicta otras medidas para la ejecución de obras de infraestructura.

Law that facilitates the acquisition, expropriation and possession of real estate for infrastructure works

This was Kenya's law on expropriation from 2010-2012 - it was repealed by the 2012 Land Act.

     An Act to provide for the acquisition for public purposes of waste land in Bangladesh

An Act to make provision authorizing the acquisition of property for public and other purposes, and for settling the amount of any compensation to be paid, or any matter in difference.

"The national land law acknowledges and upholds the public rights to land and objects related to land, and confers the public powers on the state through powers to make regulation, make policy, manage, and exercise and make supervision as stated in the fundamentals of the Acquisition of Land"

This decree aproves the General Regulation for Land Concesion in Angola.

An Act to empower the President and other authorities to acquire land and other immovable property compulsorily in certain circumstances; to make special provision for the compensation payable for agricultural land required for resettlement purposes;to provide for the establishment of the Derelict Land Board;to provide for thedeclaration and acquisition of derelict land;and to provide for matters connected withor incidental to the foregoing.

This Decree details some articles of the Law on Land concerning compensation, support, and resettlement upon land expropriation by the State. (Article 1)

An Act to make provision for the compulsory acquisition of land and other property; and to provide for matters incidental to or connected with the foregoing.

Regulations by the Minister