Talking points for Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, Director of the Democratic Governance Group in the Bureau for Development Policy Meeting on the inter-linkages between Rule of Law and the Achievement of the MDGs September 14th 2010 organised by the Rule of Law Unit, Rule of Law Coordination and Resource Group

In this speech, Ms. Moleketi gives highlights from a UN Report that detailed the interplay of the rule of law and economics and advocates for combining poverty reduction and governance approaches. It states that the legal underpinnings of entrepreneurship, employment, and market interaction are often taken for granted by traditional approaches to development and standard economic theory. Contracts and property rights are assumed to be in place, and what transpires in the informal economy is scarcely taken into account.
https://www.un.org/ruleoflaw/files/Statement%20by%20Ms.%20Geraldine%20Fraser-Moleketi.pdf