Review of de Soto's The Mystery of Capital

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The limits of land titling and home ownership (2009, background): “…(1996), “The determinants and impact of property rights: land titles on the Brazilian frontier”, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization Vol 12, No 1, pages 1569–1614, cited in C Woodruff (2001), “Review of the mystery of capital”, Journal of Economic Literature Vol 39, April, pages 1215–1223.”
How not to think of land-grabbing: three critiques of large-scale investments in farmland (2011, background): “In addition, poor farming households in fact often appear reluctant to mortgage their land in order to gain access to credit, because land is for them a lifeline: an essential social safety net where none other is available (Woodruff 2001, Palacio 2006, 18–19, Field and Torero 2006).”
The Unbanked (2008, unknown): “See Woodruff (2001) for a critical review of de Soto’s (2000) The Mystery of Capital.”
Incentives and the De Soto Effect (2012, methodology): “We also assess the robustness of the findings by looking at data from Ghana using a similar study of microenterprises to that in Sri Lanka from Fafchamps, McKenzie, Quinn, and Woodruff (2011), (31)The sample size is 361.”