This paper constructs a baseline and pursues an overall impact evaluation of the PETT (Programa Especial de Titulación de Tierras), an ambitious rural titling program created in Peru in 1992. The general evaluation of impacts on farmers shows a picture of not many positive effects, at least in...

Although since 1974, under pressure of the new trends in the world economy, public financing began gradually to lose its relative importance for Latin American countries, there seems to persist an obvious demand for bodies such as the Inter-American Development Bank. In the author's view, the...