The hidden root of global poverty?
Broken law enforcement.
Gary is the second “lawyer unicorn” that I have met (the other is Lawrence Lessig), and he gave one of my favorite TED 2015 Talks: http://go.ted.com/b6Tq
“The problem is not that the poor don’t get laws, it’s that they don’t get law enforcement. In the developing world, basic law enforcement systems are so broken that recently the U.N. issued a report that found that “most poor people live outside the protection of the law.” Now honestly, you and I have just about no idea of what that would mean because we have no first-hand experience of it. Functioning law enforcement for us is just a total assumption. In fact, nothing expresses that assumption more clearly than three simple numbers: 9-1-1, which, of course, is the number for the emergency police operator here in Canada and in the United States, where the average response time to a police 911 emergency call is about 10 minutes. So we take this just completely for granted.”
Lessig: https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=44124348109@N01&q=lessig
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