Formalising property relations in the developing world: The wrong prescription for the wrong malady

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Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa: Pilot Evidence from Rwanda (2011, neutral): “Taken together, these factors led to land titling being portrayed as paradigmatic example of a naïve top-down approach that produced white elephants on a large scale by prescribing ‘solutions’ based on abstract reasoning rather than recognition of ground realities and locally grown solutions (Bromle”
Roots of inequity: How the implementation of REDD+ reinforces past injustices (2016, background): “…disparities, as well as the existence of inseure and unclear tenure and advocate for a mechanism that takes ognizance of these disparities in its dispensation of benefits, while dvocating for governments to move ahead and make tenure clear nd secure (Brown et al., 2008; Cotula and Mayers, 2009).”
Land Registration, Governance, and Development : Evidence and Implications for Policy (2009, background): “One important insight is that a simplistic and undifferentiated call for “formalization” that lacks awareness of the complexity and long history of existing institutional arrangements is inappropriate and can make matters worse (Bromley 2009).”
On voodoo economics: theorising relations of property, value and contemporary capitalism (2010, background): “Indeed, much of the critical literature on de Soto deals explicitly with the ways in which his ideas and policies have been resisted (e.g. Home and Lim 2004; Bromley 2009).”