But low pay for public employees can be a major factor in causing corruption , in the experience of Fared Zahran, the head of the Mahronsa Centre for Press and Information in Egypt. A GOOD LAW Laws matter. The biggest losers are the poor, who lack the necessary connections in high places, or the resources to procure privilege through bribery. This was a messages emerging from a two-hour plenary session Tuesday on institutional reform. Mr. De Soto also said that clear property rights must be extended to the poor, who are usually unable to use their holdings as collateral in order to increase their production.
Law allows a simple house or a simple cow to lead a parallel life as capital.
However the trend he felt was optimistic. He was supported by Osama El-Sherif, the Editor in Chief of Arabia On Line, who could discern some positive developments. The information revolution is forcing change on us from the outside. And the panel moderator, Crocker Snow of World Times, believed that the job of the journalist and editor was becoming more important, in both the developing world where reliable information was in short supply and in the developed world where people are overwhelmed by it. In the MENA region, the rates of female participation in the labour force are growing, but they remain among the lowest in the world.