Poverty and poverty rights
Poverty and poverty rights
- 2001
- Economist 358(8215) 31 March 2001, 21-25(3) .
Argues that reforming property law in underdeveloped countries thoughout the world would help to alleviate poverty in the poorest parts of the world. Hernando de Soto's "Mystery of capital:why capitalism triumphs in the West and fails everywhere else" estimates that the total value of fixed property held but not legally owned in third world and former communist countries to be at least $9.3 trillion. Quotes Malawi as an example. Heranando de Soto's book is availalble to be borrowed from the RICS library.
PROPERTY RIGHTS
THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES
POVERTY
Argues that reforming property law in underdeveloped countries thoughout the world would help to alleviate poverty in the poorest parts of the world. Hernando de Soto's "Mystery of capital:why capitalism triumphs in the West and fails everywhere else" estimates that the total value of fixed property held but not legally owned in third world and former communist countries to be at least $9.3 trillion. Quotes Malawi as an example. Heranando de Soto's book is availalble to be borrowed from the RICS library.
PROPERTY RIGHTS
THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES
POVERTY