And when virtually every public official in their country is corrupt and expected to be corrupt, how is a national property registry going to work? We have eminent domain problems in our own country, where we expect the rule of law to matter. How is it going to help down there, where they make up the rules as they go? I don't think they solve their economic problems until they get their cultural minds right regarding man vs. state.
Yep, it's paradoxical. They have the solution and they know what it is.