Compulsory Purchase of Lands: Foreign Countries’ Experiences and Recommendations for Vietnam

Abstract

Land recovery is the dominant pathway for the government recovering land use rights for public interests based on the entire-people ownership of land. This article is based on experiences from some countries and then makes recommedations that Vietnam is required to expand the provisions on a compulsory purchase or land requisition to necessary circumstances where the state has demands for land or land use rights recovery. Notably, land requisition needs to appear as the official direction rather than the land recovery in the long term. The analysis also reveals that this formulation could clearly characterize the relationship within economic aspects and particularly resolve the land recovery’s drawbacks.