The evidence to support economist de Soto's claim that a strong titling system would lead countries to increase their economic development is:

A. strong and undisputed.
B. mixed and implies that such systems may be important with other factors present.
C. absent, and his claims are unfounded.
D. not important as in economics some theories don’t require empirical evidence to be supported.


B. mixed and implies that such systems may be important with other factors present.

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A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4

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