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Charter Cities: Property Reform in Peru
"As formal property registration expanded through the late 1990s and the early 2000s, collateral-based lending increased. Newly formal property owners felt secure enough to make improvements to their property. With formal rights, people were free to pursue earnings opportunities away from their property without fear of losing it to another claimant."
Rich Lowry on National Review Online
Quite appropriately, Rich Lowry leaves out the fact that these U.S. Pilgrim economists depended on the displacement and destruction of native civilizations, the stealing of their land and exploitation of their labor. Sounds somewhat like the destruction of the commons in later Europe.
Pambazuka - African view: China's new long march
Sixty years of communism in the People's Republic has lulled some people into forgetting just what committed businessmen the Chinese have been for 3,000 years.
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Sixty years of communism in the People's Republic has lulled some people into forgetting just what committed businessmen the Chinese have been for 3,000 years.
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The Chinese are here and everywhere else to make money and let no-one forget that - ever.
allAfrica.com: Africa: Continent Must Engage China With Win-Win Strategies - Expert (Page 1 of 1)
Greenspan recommends the banks be broken up ( - Bloomberg.com
- The major question remaining, then, seems to be how such breaking apart occurs. It is in the interests of the big financial institutions to retain their power. - pickinjava on 2009-10-18
Ghana land disputes -- Diigo list
Berry, Sara. 2009. Property, Authority and Citizenship: Land Claims, Politics and the Dynamics of Social Division in West Africa. Development and Change 40, no. 1: 40: "Since 1992, when outgoing military ruler J.J. Rawlings succeeded himself as President of the fourth Republic, Ghana has presented the anomalous picture of an ostensibly stable democratically elected national regime presiding over local battlefields where tensions over land and chieftaincy erupt, periodically, into open combat."
The Way of The Commandos - Rich Lowry - The Corner on National Review Online
Mr. Lowry probably would have waxed with the same supportive loquaciousness about Pinochet dumping 'insurgents' out of helicopters into the ocean. Is this kind of proxy 'dirty war' not a standard Western norm of invasion and occupation?
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