Land and Urban Policies for Poverty Reduction : Proceedings of the Third International Urban Research Symposium Held in Brasilia, April 2005, Volume 2 | Land Portal

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Date of publication: 
Março 2015
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oai:openknowledge.worldbank.org:10986/21557
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CC BY 3.0 IGO

The first paper of this section
(Durand-Laserve) documents how increasing pressures on urban
land and the 'commodification' of shelter and
settlement has increased 'market evictions' of
families holding intermediate tide to property, although
international declarations and pressures have contributed to
reducing 'forced evictions.' The second paper
(Mooya and Cloete) uses the tools of the New Institutional
Economics to analyze the argument in Hernando DeSoto's
path-breaking book, The Mystery of Capital, that full legal
tide is the key to turning 'dead capital' in the
form of informal property held by many low-income families
into an economic asset and to detonating broad-based
economic growth. The paper concludes that intermediate forms
of tenure can have the virtues of full legal tide if
properly constructed, and then examines the case of Namibia
in this context. The third paper (Fernandes) documents and
assesses the recent efforts of the Brazilian federal
Ministry of Cities to develop a comprehensive approach for
regularizing title throughout that country. In the fourth
paper, Abramo gives a structural and theoretical over-view
of informal settlement in Brazil. The fifth paper (Rakodi)
looks at traditional land delivery systems in five
medium-sized Sub-Saharan African cities, and concludes that
policies and programs can build on their strengths.

Autores e editores

Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s): 

Freire, Mila
Lima, Ricardo
Cira, Dean
Ferguson, Bruce
Kessides, Christine
Mota, Jose Aroudo
Motta, Diana

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The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. We are not a bank in the ordinary sense but a unique partnership to reduce poverty and support development.

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