Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Settlement, government policy, and property rights in the Brazilian Amazon : introduction and implications for frontiers elsewhere in the world
  • A history of land policy in Brazil : the assignment of property rights to land and land reform
  • Current land policies : the politics and economics of property rights distribution, enforcement, and land reform
  • A framework for analyzing settlement, property rights, and violence on the Brazilian Amazon frontier
  • Settlement by smallholders and property rights on the Amazon frontier
  • The determinants and impact of property rights : evidence from household surveys
  • The determinants and impact of property rights : census data from two frontiers in the states of Paraná and Pará
  • The determinants and impact of violent conflict over land on the Amazon frontier
  • Equity and efficiency : the political provision of property rights and their distribution on the frontier.