Sources

Lesson Options

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Background for Teachers

Case Studies and Analyses

  1. Property Rights for Untouchables in India
  2. No Title, No Loan in Malawi (East Africa)
  3. Title reform in India

Student Activity

  1. You're the Economist (in-class analysis of Brazilian Amazon field survey data, 1992-3)
  2. The Rule of Law
  3. Australia and Argentina - A Study in Contrast

Alston, Lee J. "Institutions, Property Rights and Their Impact on the Poor." Unpublished paper written for The Foundation for Teaching Economics. June 2003

Alston, Lee J., Gary D. Libecap and Bernardo Mueller. “A Model of Rural Conflict: Violence and Land Reform Policy in Brazil.” Environment and Development Economics 4 (1999): 135-160.

---. Titles, Conflict and Land Use: The Development of Property Rights and Land Reform on the Brazilian Amazon Frontier. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1999.

---. “Property Rights and Land Conflict: A Comparison of Settlement of the U.S. Western and Brazilian Amazon Frontiers.” Latin America and the World Economy Since 1800. Ed. John H. Coatsworth and Alan M. Taylor. Cambridge: Oxford University Press, 1998. 55.

Alston, Lee J., Gary D. Libecap and Robert Schneider. “Property rights and the preconditions for markets: the case of the amazon frontier.” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 151.1 (1995): 89-107.

---. “The determinants and impact of property rights: land titles on the Brazilian frontier.” The Journal of Law, Economics and Organization 12 (1996): 25-61.

Bhatnagar, Subhash. “Land/Property Registration in Andhra Pradesh.” E*Government. 16 Nov. 2000. The World Bank Group. 16 Feb. 2004
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Center for Civic Education. National Standards for Civics and Government. Calabasas, CA: Center for Civic Education, 1994

Chawla, Rajeey and Subhash Bhatnagar. “Bhoomi: Online Delivery of Land Titles in Karnataka, India.” E*Government. 20 Dec. 2001. The World Bank Group. 16 Feb. 2004 <Link to Source >.

De Soto, Hernando. The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else. New York, 2000.

Field, Erica. “Entitled to Work: Urban Property Rights and Labor Supply in Peru.” Working paper. Princeton University, Oct. 2002.

Glave, Testino and Manuel Augusto. “Economic Analysis of Peasant Family Farms: Agricultural intensification, cost-accounting, and sharecropping in Andean peasant communities.” Diss. U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1992.

“India’s Shining Hopes.” The Economist 21 Feb. 2004.

Keating, Christopher James. “Institutional Constraints and Bolivian Agrarian Development During the Pre-Agrarian Reform and Post-Agrarian Reform Periods.” Diss. U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1998.

“Making Africa Smile.” The Economist 15 Jan. 2004. (note: portions available online Here)

Mayell, Hillary. “India’s ‘Untouchables’ Face Violence, Discrimination.” National Geographic News 2 June 2003. 15 Mar. 2004 <Source>.

O’Neill, Tom. “Untouchable.” National Geographic. June 2003: 6-31.

The World Bank Group. Development Progress: Country Brief – South Asia Region – India. Aug. 2003. The World Bank Group. 13 Feb. 2004 <Source>.