Among economists, the view that precisely defined and reliably enforced property rights are generally conducive to … previously acknowledged: property rights reforms might, for example, not per se lead to increases in observed growth rates. This … paper contributes to the debate by emphasizing that the mere promise of secure property rights is unlikely to have any …

World index, we estimate the potential causal impact of the rule of law on the long-run net income inequality. Conditioning …

expanding domain of international intervention into the Third World. This thesis asks why this is so, taking seriously the idea … universal applicability which has inspired attempts by the Third World to use international law as a site of political struggle …. This project has made the idea(l) of self government in the Third World illusory and vulnerable to capture by rent …

per capita income or growth. Secure private property rights is found to be a most significant positive causal variable as …