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Formal serviced land in Latin America and the Caribbean is too expensive and is, therefore, responsible for a number of ills that plague the housing sector—or is it? Unfortunately, many of the voices decrying high land prices lack data to support their opinions. Writing on land markets in the region’s cities, Smolka and Mullahy (2000) stress that “there are many misconceptions in the form of myths, prejudices and misinformation that distort seriously the views of well meaning participants in the debate on land policy” (p. xxv).
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Bouillon, C.P., Boruchowicz, C., Dowall, D., Medellín, N. (2012). Digging up the Truth about Land Markets. In: Bouillon, C.P. (eds) Room for Development. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137031464_6
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