Topic: land markets

Monitoring Paper: Thailand's Land Titling Program
Rebeca Leonard and Kingkorn Narintarakul Na Ayutthaya, Northern Development Foundation
November 06, 2003 - The World Bank’s Land Titling Programme in Thailand has been one of the largest land titling programmes implemented throughout the world. The Bank has praised itself for what it sees as the success of the programme in several of its own reports. However, the very people who were supposed to have benefited from this World Bank programme have, instead, become much worse off.

Backgrounder Part II-The World Bank and Land Reform in Brazil
Sérgio Sauer, National Forum on Agrarian Reform and Rural Justice
November 06, 2003 - The second of a three part report on the history and status of land reform in Brazil. In this section of the report Sérgio Sauer focuses on the role of the World Bank in shaping land reform policy at the national level and its emphasis on the establishment of land markets.