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What is it that keeps the developing world in an apparent state of perpetual

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问题     What is it that keeps the developing world in an apparent state of perpetual poverty? Poor education, lack of basic medical care, and the absence of democratic structures all certainly contribute to these nations’ plight. However, according to Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto, the overriding cause is the overwhelming prevalence of black market activity, well outside the formal economy, in these countries. The losses incurred from this condition are twofold. First, they deny the government tax revenues which could be used to improve education, medical treatment, and government efficiency. More important, however, they deny earners the chance to accumulate assets recognized by law and thus prevent them from leveraging those assets to borrow. Reforming these nations’ legal systems in order to confer ownership through tilting, de Soto argues, would help the poor there access the assets their work should be generating. These assets could then be used to buy homes and construct businesses, thus building a more stable and prosperous economy. De Soto estimates the value of these assets, which he terms "dead capital, "at nearly $ 10 trillion world wide.
    De Soto is not the first to locate the developing world’s problems in the domain of property rights. Others have tried property rights reform and failed. According to de Soto, this is because his predecessors attempted to model their plans on existing, successful property rights systems. In other words, they tried to transplant American and British property law to an inhospitable host. De Soto argues that, within many of the extralegal markets of the developing world, mutually agreed upon rules for distributing assets and recognizing property rights already exist. Rather than force these markets to adjust to a new, foreign system of property tilting, reformers should focus on codifying the existing systems wherever it is practical to do so. This would facilitate a quicker, more natural transition to an economy that builds wealth rather than squanders it. [br] The author ’s primary goal in the passage is to______.
选项 A、compare several failed attempts to address a problem
B、respond to criticism of a new theory
C、identify the problems inherent in a new economic theory
D、describe a novel approach to an old problem
答案 D
解析 作者写这篇短文的主要目的是讲述解决旧问题的新方法。本文讲述了一个老问题和解决老问题的新方法。老问题是第三世界国家的贫困，解决老问题的新方法是秘鲁经济学家赫尔南多·德索托提出的解决贫困的方法。
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