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The Commission on Legal Empowerment <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Poor aims to make legal protection andeconomic opportunity not <strong>the</strong> privilege <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> few but <strong>the</strong> right <strong>of</strong> all.This is a wholly different approach to <strong>the</strong>poverty debate …our Commission will focus ona unique and overlooked aspect <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> problem:<strong>the</strong> inextricable link between pervasive povertyand <strong>the</strong> absence <strong>of</strong> legal protections for<strong>the</strong> poor.– Madeleine K. AlbrightThe law is not something that you invent in auniversity – <strong>the</strong> law is something that youdiscover. Poor people already have agreementsamong <strong>the</strong>mselves, social contracts, and what youhave to do is pr<strong>of</strong>essionally standardize <strong>the</strong>secontracts to create one legal system that everybodyrecognizes and obeys.– Hernando de Sotowww.undp.org/legalempowermentdesign: cynthiaspence.com

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