Peru’s titling program concentrated titles in cities, not rural target zones.

Evidence

When the program ended in 2004, Huancayo accounted for only 2 percent of the property titles it had awarded; Lima and Arequipa accounted for 67 percent (World Bank 2004, 5, map 1). — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2006

Categorization

• XREF: Directly tests de Soto’s claim that poor Peruvians would benefit from formalized property titles — the chapter’s core critique. — connects to: Peru’s housing boom stemmed from a state subsidy, not property titling — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1992; Staggered rollout of a titling program enabled a natural experiment in Peru — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1938

Broader Connections

• Staggered rollout of a titling program enabled a natural experiment in Peru #complicates (0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1938