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El mercado de tierras en dos provincias de Argentina: La Rioja y Salta

Institutional & promotional materials
December, 1999
Argentina

Resumen Este informe se basó en informaciones cualitativas y cuantitativas obtenidas tanto a nivel nacional como de dos estudios de caso: Los Llanos de la Provincia de La Rioja y Los Valles Calchaquíes de la Provincia de Salta. Aquí también se incorporó a modo comparativo la zona del bolsón de Arauco y Chilecito en la Provincia de La Rioja por su gran importancia actual en el mercado de tierras rurales en esta provincia. En ambos casos se realizaron visitas de campo y entrevistas locales.

Pavimentando el otro sendero: tierras rurales, el mercado y el Estado en América Latina

Institutional & promotional materials
March, 2000
South America
Central America

Resumen En la mayoría de los países de América Latina, los temas relacionados con la tenencia de tierras ocupan un lugar destacado en el programa político. En la búsqueda de soluciones para este problema, ha llamado considerablemente la atención en los últimos años el mecanismo de mercado como un sistema potencialmente capaz de producir una distribución más eficiente y equitativa no sólo de recursos, sino también de oportunidades económicas. Estos cambios se evidencian, por ejemplo, en recientes reformas legales importantes en Bolivia, México o Perú.

Property rights and the rural land market in Latin America

Journal Articles & Books
April, 1996
South America
Central America

Land distribution in Latin America is characterized by striking inequality. Notwithstanding the emergence of modern structures in some regions, a few huge land holdings are found alongside a large number of small ones. This situation has long been considered undesirable for reasons of social equity as well as for reasons of efficiency. The topic remains high on the political agenda. The ultimately disappointing results of past redistributive reforms have caused contemporary policy-makers to search for alternatives.

A Guide On Land And Property Rights In Pakistan

Reports & Research
November, 2012
Pakistan

‘A Guide on Land and Property Rights in Pakistan’ was designed and prepared to facilitate the basic understanding of the complex principles of the Pakistani land and revenue administration system. The first edition, printed in December 2011, was warmly received by lawyers, national civil society organisations, community leaders, local authorities, donor agencies, and international affairs organisations, engaged in relief, rehabilitation, development or other similar works that necessitate some basic understanding of the land administration system in Pakistan.

Immobilized land market caused by lack of secure property rights: case of the cerrado Piauiense

Conference Papers & Reports
February, 2016
Latin America and the Caribbean
South America
Brazil
This article shows the case of the cerrado region where because of a lack of clear property rights the land market is completely immobilized.
 
It started with the land occupation of Piauí's cerrado region and the creation of its land market in the seventies by the State Development Agency (CONDEPI), which sold with symbolic prices very large properties for cattle and fruit production.

A proposition to solve the land cadaster system in Brazil: the role of CNIR and a new institutionalization

Conference Papers & Reports
February, 2016
Latin America and the Caribbean
South America
Brazil

Brazil has, on the one hand, strong institutions in various areas, improved social situation and, on the other, the rural land situation is still very precarious, with basic unresolved questions, such as for example, knowledge of what is public and private land, due to the absence of cadaster. The legislation moved forward in an attempt to link the cadasters of INCRA, the Internal Revenue Service, with information from the Registry of Real Estate with the enactment of Law No. 10,267 / 2001, creating the National Register of Rural Properties – CNIR.