Avoiding special incentives for physical capital or improving property rights and the pricing of natural resources can generate resources for redressing social under-investment.

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Yet human capital does not have property rights, and therefore remains absent from most financial statements unless a transaction takes place under narrowly defined conditions.

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One great justification for NPEs is that they can provide the actual capital and willingness to defend property rights where an inventor simply cannot.

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While there are many structural inhibitors the educational system, government control, the protection of intellectual property rights, capital to the development of creative companies in China today, most, if not all, of these inhibitors will diminish over time.

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Somno-capitalism In " Waking Dead Capital" Hernando de Soto is dead on target about lack of property rights in the Third World.

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Peru has started to restructure their economy under a 2006 free trade deal with the U.S. and key is a focus on property rights and titling of property, which is essential for capital formation.

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Doing so will require that credit be made available to small businesses, and that property rights be strengthened "so that land can be leveraged as a source of capital to start businesses to hire new workers, " he said.

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De Soto's most recent book, The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, brilliantly lays out how the property rights we take for granted in the West are still woefully incomplete or nonexistent in most of the rest of the world.

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Perhaps the powers that be had read and taken to heart De Soto's classic work The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, in which he discusses how crucial secure property rights are to achieving prosperity.

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