Developing Economies  How Honduras Can Pull Off Five Centuries
Of Legal Reforms In A Decade  Honduran soldiers patrol poor
neighborhoods in the outskirts of Tegucigalpa due to a
deterioration of the police force.    In this week's New York
Times Magazine, Adam Davidson profiles Paul Romer, an economist
at NYU who has convinced Honduras to try a radical new
experiment in development economics: Build a city from scratch —
and get foreign governments to help run it. We asked Romer and
his research associate, Brandon Fuller, to explain how it can be
done. Their response is below.  Today, it is widely assumed each
country must establish the rule of law on its own. There's just
one problem with this prescription, which Gordon Brown summed up
nicely: in establishing the rule of law, the first five
centuries are always the hardest. Some societies have already
been down this long and arduous path. Why can't Hondurans
leverage their experience?  With broad political support, the
congress in Honduras recently created a