Launch of the International Property Rights Index 2008

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Bucharest, February 26, 2008-Center for Institutional analysis and Development (CADI-Eleutheria) announces the launch of the 2008 edition of the index of International property rights (IPRI), which reveals the 115 countries evaluated the correlation between the economic well-being of individuals and the safety of their rights of ownership intellectual and physical.  The dissemination of this report participate in this year's 41 organizations on six continents around the world in partnership with the Alliance for the rights of ownership (Property Rights Alliance-PRA) in Washington, d.c. and Fellowship program "Hernando de Soto '.  In Romania, CADI is project partner PRA.

The 2008 edition of the index of International property rights (IPRI) is the second international comparative study that confirms the importance of the observance of dreptrilor physical and intellectual property in the economic prosperity of individuals. Join Freedom Index and Perceived Corruption Index, IPRI is an indicator of freedom that individuals in exercise of the right to trade assets on the market and the results contained in this report, for the second consecutive year that, cultivating a system that defends private property is guaranteed path for economic growth of any country.

In 2008, with the objective of inglobarea is good for all aspects of the protection of the rights of propprietate, IPRI took into account three variables: legal and political environment (JP), physical property rights (DPF) and intellectual property rights (IPRs). The scores obtained by each country separately are marked on a scale from 0 to 10, where 10 represents the country's score with the best measures of protection of property rights. The 115 countries indexed represents 96% of the world's gross domestic product, which proves that countries representing the upper deck focuses an average GDP per capita of nine times higher compared to that of the countries located in the tail.

Regarding Romania, score to the protection of property rights has grown from 3.5 in 2007 to 5 this year, drive and the wasteful, ranked 62 along with Mauritania, El-Salvador, China, Brazil, Bahrain, Mexico and the Philippines.  This new rating, got together, reveal a world of improvement of the legal framework that protects private property dreprturile to the Romans, contributing at the same time to increase their welfare. Taken separately, the three variables analysed, relative to the new score obtained in 2007 due to betterment most variable DPF, followed by increasing the DPI and JP, variable with a modest increase in (1,3). Using the index of Propritate rights, we can say that, although there were increases, further changes are necessary in the context of regulating private property rights, especially in the legal and political corruption, as neicrederea in the justice courts, judicial independence and political instability, are the main elements which discourages investors in deciding the placement of private capital on the Romanian market. These changes, together with the results obtained in this report will enhance efficiency and attractiveness of investment, economic and environmental effects which will gradually lead to increased economic prosperity in Romania.

Through the publication of Property Rights, IPRI Alliance International and its partners hope to open the road to initiation of future researches to identify failures and successes in developing countries of policies geared to observance of the rights of intellectual and physical property. At the same time, the filmmakers report expresses hope of the possibility of using Index IPRI 2008 by RTD policy the country weaker performances as a tool in the development of comparative analysis and future studies that would lead to the improvement of legislation in the field of property rights.

For detailed information, as well as analyses by country, list of partner organizations globally in its entirety, or the vizitatiwww.InternationalPropertyRightsIndex.org.