Property rights after market liberalization reforms: land titling and investments in rural Peru

This book discusses the links between land access, property rights, and economic development, analyzing the results and limitations of a public intervention- Land Titling and Registration- that constitutes one of the main instruments for contemporary land policy in Peru. It attempts to provide a com...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Wageningen, the Netherlands Wageningen Academic Publishers 2007
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Zusammenfassung:This book discusses the links between land access, property rights, and economic development, analyzing the results and limitations of a public intervention- Land Titling and Registration- that constitutes one of the main instruments for contemporary land policy in Peru. It attempts to provide a comprehensive analysis and discussion of the importance of institutions, like land property rights, in the context of market liberalization reforms. In operational terms, this means verifying whether land titling constitutes a necessary and/or sufficient condition to promote investments and increase land values. This book reveals that titling and registration can be considered as a necessary condition to improve investment opportunities when its implementation procedure is based on the recognition of previous informal land rights and community networks, because its effect on the reduction of transaction costs at
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-107). - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
1. Introduction -- 2. Land inequality and economic growth: a dynamic panel data approach -- 3. The homogenization effect of land titling on investment incentives: evidence from Peru -- 4. Credit constraints in the Peruvian rural sector: can titling provide a solution? -- 5. The externality effect of titling on investments: evidence from Peru -- 6. Discussion and conclusions
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ISBN:9789086866298
9086866298
DOI:10.3920/978-90-8686-629-8

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