Library Resource
January, 1991
Ecuador, Costa Rica, Honduras, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Saint Lucia, Guatemala, Latin America and the Caribbean
Summarizes recent research (to 1991) on rural land markets in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region and on the relationship between this research and broader land tenure issues. The purpose of the project that prompted this paper was to carry out cross-country and longitudinal research on land tenure issues in the LAC region so as to provide an instructive and informative analysis of how tenure patterns affect economic, rural development, and environmental issues.