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245 _aPoverty and poverty rights
260 _c2001
490 _aEconomist
_v358(8215) 31 March 2001, 21-25(3)
520 _aArgues 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.
590 _aABS
650 _aPROPERTY RIGHTS
650 _aTHIRD WORLD COUNTRIES
650 _aPOVERTY
690 _aECONOMIC ISSUES
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