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user-inactivated · 3740 days ago · link · · parent · post: Global inequality: Oxfam report finds 85 richest people's net worth equals poorest 3.5 billion.
Agreed with your larger point, just wanted to chip in this good Slate article debunking Hernando de Soto's assertion that pinning down property rights and land titles is somehow the magical antidote to poverty.
Agree that there's no magic bullet to fight poverty. It's a complicated problem that requires a multipronged approach to fight. That said, without rule of law (of which property rights are the most basic component) there is no economic freedom (and no freedom generally, since economic freedom is the basis for all other liberal freedoms).