Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1. Settlement, Government Policy, and Property Rights in the Brazilian Amazon: Introduction and Implications for Frontiers Elsewhere in the World -- 2. A History of Land Policy in Brazil: The Assignment of Property Rights to Land and Land...

This paper presents a summary of main results of evaluation studies of performance of Ceacute;dula da Terra (MAAR) and INCRA (TAR) Agrarian Reform Projects. Moreover, it focus on the comparison between the two governance structures regarding Williamson discussion on quot;remediablenessquot;. The...

We examine three reforms to property rights introduced by the United States in the Philippines in the early 20th century: the redistribution of large estates to their tenants, the creation of a system of secure land titles, and a homestead program to encourage cultivation of public lands. During...

Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Examining Land Policies from a Property Rights Perspective - Gregory K. Ingram and Yu-Hung Hong -- The Design and Evolution of Property Rights Institutions -- 2 Design Principles of Robust Property Rights...

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Content / Sommaire -- Contributors / Les contributeurs -- 1. Introduction. Africa's Diverse and Changing Land Questions -- African Land Questions in Historical Context: How Unique? -- Land Tenure Reforms and Land Markets -- African's Land and the Agrarian...

Introduction -- Part I: Dispossession -- The crime of apartheid -- Apartheid, capitalism, and land -- Race and dispossession -- About the stolen cattle -- Chiefly power -- Part II: Property and liberation -- Property and the franchise -- Private property and liberation -- The settlement of the...

Two major approaches on how to address women's land security can be identified: reforming the formal legal sector, and embracing informal community practices. However, through research conducted among Kenya's agricultural communities, the authors find that these systems formal, informal, or...

We study how distributional preferences are affected by a major property rights reform that transformed informal use-rights over land traditionally characterizing rural Beninese villages in a system akin to private ownership. The design combines the randomized control-trial implementation of the...