[Eva]

From what I understand, a large part of the problem in Egypt is the fact that 92% of the people hold their property without legal property rights. It's worse than that, though, there are no real legal contracts, either, because the people don't own anything. Egypt's Economic Apartheid

[livius]

The lack of clear title to property in Egypt (and probably many traditional societies) is indeed one of its biggest problems. There was some suggestion of creating a massive legal project to aid people in getting title to “their” property, or possibly even some sort of government declaration awarding title to certain lands as a starting point.

One of the other problems is that we are seeing only Cairo and hearing only about its problems; most of the rest of the Egyptian population is rural or lives in smaller population centers, and these problems are even more acute there.

[Straight Vermonter]

That is a problem around the world. We are blessed to live in the west where private property laws were established centuries ago.