ALF 5, Meeting of Property Rights Alliance in KL

The 4th Asia Liberty Forum (ALF) started last night here at the Renaissance Hotel Kuala Lumpur, with an opening dinner, keynote speech given by Tom Palmer of Atlas. Earlier, the Property Rights Alliance (PRA) headed by Lorenzo Montanari held a short meeting for its Asian partners.

Lorenzo discussed what the International Property Rights Index (IPRI) is all about,  its contents and ranking of countries, the value of property rights protection, etc.

From left: Arpita  Nepal of Samriddhi, Nepal; Wan Saiful Wan  Jan of IDEAS, Malaysia; Bican Sahin of Freedom Research Association, Turkey; me; Tricia Yeoh of IDEAS, Malaysia; Lorenzo; Barun Mitra of Liberty Institute, India; Baladevan Rangaraju of India Institute, Dhananath Fernando of Advocata, Sri Lanka; and John Humphreys of PRIME, Cambodia.

See my article today in BusinessWorld, "Asia Liberty Forum and property rights".
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See also:

ALF 2: Opening Dinner Program, January 09, 2015 

ALF 3: Photos with Friends, Kathmandu Conference, January 20, 2015 

ALF 4, Conference 2016 in Kuala Lumpur,January 09, 2016

BWorld 26, IPRI 2015 in APEC economies, November 19, 2015

Free Trade 57, Growth, IPRI 2015 and the TPP, November 28, 2015 

IPR and Innovation 30, More on IPRI 2015 launching in KL last year, February 01,2016