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Developing countries lack proper legal system where laws are based on property rights and market economy. That's why mentality of African people for example can
by mrkramer 6y ago
Developing countries lack proper legal system where laws are based on property rights and market economy. That's why mentality of African people for example can not change and can not embrace capitalism.
I would suggest you to read Hernando De Soto - The Mystery Of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs In The West And Fails Everywhere Else
The book argues "it actually has everything to do with the legal structure of property and property rights. Every developed nation in the world at one time went through the transformation from predominantly informal, extralegal ownership to a formal, unified legal property system. In the West we've forgotten that creating this system is also what allowed people everywhere to leverage property into wealth." [1]
Book is in the public domain: [1]
https://archive.org/details/Hernando_De_Soto_The_Mystery_Of_Capital_Why_Capitalism_TriumphsIn_The_West_And_Fails_Everywhere_Else https://archive.org/details/Hernando_De_Soto_The_Mystery_Of_...
Once the China for instance embraced capitalism and changed their legal system to allow private property ownership and allow market economy they thrived. Plus allowing American companies to come and exploit cheap work force they acquired "know-how" by now widely known and familiar stealing of intellectual property and copying literally everything they put their hands on.