Do Property Titles Increase Credit Access Among the Urban Poor

By Erica M. Field, Maximo Torero. 2004

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Property Rights and EconomicDevelopment (2009, background): “Another study by Field and Torero (2006) looks at an urban land titling program in Peru.”
Industrial land development in urban villages in China: A property rights perspective (2014, background): “Field and Torero (2006) found that property titles failed to increase credit access among the urban poor after a nationwide titling program was implemented in Peru.”
Access to Rural Credit Markets in Developing Countries, the Case of Vietnam: A Literature Review (2019, background): “However, in many studies, the area of land is the most important determinant of access to agricultural credit [54,55].”
Policy and praxis of land acquisition in China (2007, background): “Empirical studies demonstrate that security of landownership has a substantial impact on rural development (Besley, 1995; Feder et al., 1988; Field and Torero, 2003; Alston et al., 1996).”
Impacts of land certification on tenure security, investment, and land markets: evidence from Ethiopia (2008, background): “…value of the land under question (Galiani and Schargrodsky 2005, Payne et al. 2008) and social or political considerations to limit foreclosure (Field and Torero 2006) may jeopardize realization of credit effects and imply that such effects may be less readily realized than sometimes suggested…”
Credit Constraints and Productivity in Peruvian Agriculture (2007, background): “Table 1 Credit market participation by sector Percent of sample using 1997 2003 Formal loan 27.5% 25.0% Informal loan 35.5% 33.5% Semi-formal loan 16.0% 7.0% No loan 28.0% 42.0% households are classified according to the outcome: rejected applicants are quantity rationed (constrained), while those w”
Impacts of Land Certification on Tenure Security, Investment, and Land Market Participation: Evidence from Ethiopia (2011, background): “…of the land under question (Galiani and Schargrodsky 2005; Payne, Durand-Lasserve, and Rakodi 2008), or social/ political considerations limiting foreclosure (Field and Torero 2006) may undermine realization of credit effects, which might thus be less readily achieved than originally hoped for.”
Delinking Land Rights from Land Use: Certification and Migration in Mexico (2015, background): “(5)Previous research has failed to document a credit access effect from banks using land as collateral after titling (Galiani and Schargrodsky, 2010; Field and Torero, 2006).”
Geographies of circulation and exchange: constructions of markets (2009, background): “Using examples from Egypt and Peru, Mitchell (2002, 2008a, b) has shown how economics reorganizes the circulation and control of representations by drawing a clear cut boundary around markets.”
The Impact of “Market-Friendly” Reforms on Credit and Land Markets in Honduras and Nicaragua (2005, background): “…land as collateral is certainly a positive step, recent theory and empirical evidence suggest it might best be viewed as a necessary but not sufficient condition to alleviate non-price rationing outcomes in credit markets (Conning, 1999; Fields, 2003; Mushinksi, 1999; Carter and Olinto, 2003).”
Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa: Pilot Evidence from Rwanda (2011, background): “They may accrue only to wealthy producers (Carter and Olinto 2003) and often expectations for property rights reform to improve credit access failed to materialize (Field and Torero 2006).”