The special love Texans have for pickups may be connected with the functional demands of private land ownership.
The reformers have also been able to push through laws on private land ownership, deregulation and other pressing issues.
They authorize private land ownership, but you can't buy and sell land.
Even in Ethiopia, one of the prime recipients of land-based foreign direct investment in Africa, the law does not allow private ownership of the land, which belongs to the State.
This argues that market reforms in pastoralism cannot work without the private ownership of land.
The sale of freehold land rights is more common in contexts where the land is already under private ownership, which is the case in many Latin American countries.
Last year's mining law in effect expropriated ownership of land from private miners.
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"I think the situation here has been hampered by some of the problems with ownership, and the fact this has been private land - it's not been government land for the past five years and that has meant that the Department of Justice have had a very limited role to play, " Mr Weir said.
The city would retain ownership of the land, signing 99-year leases with private developers who would build the complexes.
Even before the debate began, government economists had been studying measures such as allowing more self-employment and private or co-operative ownership of small and medium-sized businesses, as well as reforming land tenure and freeing agricultural markets.
They think that if the land is owned then it will be protected and respected more because the general population needs the concept of private ownership to care about the environment.
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