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	The Poor Man's Capitalist: Hernando de Soto
		De Soto came across the dogs in Bali, he says, not long after he had begun what may, in the fullness of time, prove to be among the more consequential crusades in economic history.
		De Soto ended up in Haiti at the behest of a reform-minded business group, the Center for Free Enterprise and Democracy (or CLED, the French acronym), which was the inspiration of Lionel Delatour, a member of one of Haiti's leading intellectual families.
		De Soto and Delatour told the president that the first step was to title poor squatters in places where there could be no conflicting claims: the 40 percent of land owned by the state.
	seattlecentral.org /faculty/jhubert/poorman'scapitalist.html (3350 words)

	Commanding Heights : Hernando de Soto \| on PBS
		HERNANDO DE SOTO: The difference between being in the U.S. and being in Peru is that a very small number of people in the U.S. are concerned with development for the very simple reason they're already developed, while development is what we're all about in the Third World.
		HERNANDO DE SOTO: Capitalism of course is in trouble, because as usual it is only catching on among the top 20, 10 percent of the population of Latin American countries that have got their property rights paperized in a way that they can enter the market.
		HERNANDO DE SOTO: There's a message in my book which is the result of the research and the conclusions my colleagues and I came to as a result of very practical empirical experience in many developing countries throughout the world.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitextlo/int_hernandodesoto.html (11320 words)

	Economics and International Studies: Mr Hernando de Soto
		Hernando de Soto was born in Peru but at the age of seven he moved with his parents to Europe.
		Hernando de Soto did not discover transactions cost economics, or legal economics, or the economics of property rights or the new institutional economics, but he understands the importance of all these developments for explaining the process of economic growth better than the specialist scholars, and he communicated this importance to millions.
		Hernando de Soto's work has done a great service to the developed nations by reminding them that their continued prosperity is dependent upon institutions long taken for granted.
	www.buckingham.ac.uk /international/aboutdept/hongrads/desoto.html (1845 words)

	Hoover Institution - Uncommon Knowledge - CULTURE CLASH: A Talk with Hernando De Soto
		Hernando De Soto is founder and President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy in Lima, Peru.
		Hernando De Soto: …Then what happens, seeing the advantage of the Anglo-Saxon countries, is that all the other countries, the Roman Law countries, like mine, had to re-engineer their law, and in effect Germany followed, and France followed, and Switzerland followed in that re-engineer.
		Hernando De Soto: In other words, for example, what you paid in bribes, if you were in the extra-legal sector, was nearly as high as the tax, so we didn't have to touch the tax, we just touched the cost of doing things.
	www.hoover.org /publications/uk/2995496.html (4224 words)

	Hernando de Soto (economist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hernando de Soto (born 1941 in Arequipa) is a Peruvian economist known for his work on the informal economy.
		De Soto argues that an important characteristic of capitalism is the functioning state protection of property rights in a formal property system where ownership and transactions are clearly recorded.
		De Soto convinced then-president Fuijmori to travel to Washington, D.C., where Fujimori met with several important figures within the IMF, the US Department of State, and the Japanese embassy, who convinced him that he had to abide by the rules set by the international financial institutions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hernando_de_Soto_(economist) (2557 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Mystery of Capital: Books: Hernando De Soto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		De Soto's on the ground research reveals that this is the result of an accelerated process of urbanization and population growth, coupled with the inability of legal systems to adapt to the reality of how people live.
		De Soto believes that the poor people living in extralegal sectors of 3rd world countries are the real entrepreneurs of their countries.
		This is the essence of de Soto's insight which he deepens in chapter after chapter, drawing on the histories of a number of countries and the work of his team of researchers who had to go out amongst the poor before they could fully understand why capitalism is failing in so many countries.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Mystery-Capital-Hernando-Soto/dp/0552999237 (2013 words)

	bugmoney: technology and the environment: Hernando de Soto
		Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto, President of the ILD and best-selling author of The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, discusses the origin of capital, the capitalist system, and how it has helped and hindered developing and post-communist nations.
		De Soto, who was recently inducted into the International Democracy Hall of Fame, says the function of a market economy is to exchange but, startlingly, five-sixths of the global population is outside of the capitalist game due to legal systems that do not grant property rights over assets.
		De Soto argues that cultural explanations for the failure of capitalism in some countries are moot.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~zcd/bugmoney/2005/11/hernando-de-soto.html (201 words)

	Hernando de Soto (explorer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hernando de Soto was born to parents who were hidalgos of modest means in Extremadura, a region of poverty and hardship from which many young people looked for ways to seek their fortune elsewhere.
		Since de Soto had propagated among the local natives that he was an immortal sun god (as a ploy to gain their submission without conflict), his men had to conceal his death.
		De Soto's men were, at the same time, the first and the last Europeans to experience the prime of the Mississippian culture.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hernando_de_Soto_(explorer) (3419 words)

	UNC News release -- Noted economist de Soto to discuss property rights
		De Soto’s promotion of property rights as a solution to global poverty has attracted the attention of heads of state across the political spectrum as well as impoverished farmers and fl-market street vendors around the world.
		A finalist for the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002, de Soto is the president and founder of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy in Lima.
		Founded in 1980, de Soto’s institute is credited for developing legal property systems that have moved hundreds of thousands of businesses and real estate holdings from the underground economy into the economic mainstream, and revolutionized the way world leaders address enduring poverty.
	www.unc.edu /news/archives/oct04/fpg_desoto101904.html (788 words)

	Hernando De Soto speech
		Reflections from Hernando de Soto, an internationally-renowned Peruvian economist and founder of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy.
		Hernando de Soto is currently President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD) based in Lima, Peru.
		de Soto was born in Arequipa, Peru, in 1941 and did his post-graduate work at the 'Institut Universitaire des Hautes Etudes Internationales' in Geneva.
	www.aed.org /Events/desoto_event.cfm (203 words)

	Economist Hernando de Soto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hernando de Soto and the Shining Path - a Maoist guerrilla group - were on a collision course in Peru.
		"De Soto is impressive because of the intellectual and practical content of his ideas," Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State for the Clinton Administration, said in an e-mail interview.
		De Soto and his team met with leaders and built a bridge between them and the government.
	www.topix.net /content/ibd/3658244946404590021113847805411289071307 (1446 words)

	Is Economic Freedom for Everyone?
		As many of you know, Hernando is the founder and president of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy, a think tank in Peru that economists have called one of the most important in the world.
		De Soto: I don’t have a diplomatic passport, and I’m not in the hierarchy, but I’m something that is probably just as good: I’m the personal representative of a president that is essentially a Social Democrat, Alan Garcia.
		Hernando de Soto is President of the Lima, Peru-based Institute for Liberty and Democracy.
	www.heritage.org /Research/WorldwideFreedom/hl977.cfm (7051 words)

	Innovation Watch - Original Minds (Hernando de Soto) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hernando de Soto was born in Arequipa, Peru, in 1941 and did his post-graduate work at the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales in Geneva.
		de Soto is President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD) headquartered in Lima, Peru.
		Today Hernando de Soto, together with the ILD, is designing and implementing capital formation programs to empower the poor in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.
	www.innovationwatch.com /original_society_hernandodesoto.htm (619 words)

	J. Bishop Grewell on Hernando de Soto on National Review Online
		De Soto has joined a growing number of academics who are ushering in an unexpected renaissance for property rights after centuries of disrepute as the bane of those influenced by the Rousseaus and Marxes of the world.
		From that experience, de Soto decided that if he was going to get his hands dirty, it was going to be in the streets where dirty hands lifted the underprivileged, not in the halls of capital buildings where dirty hands held them down.
		De Soto still brings his message to world leaders, but no longer to elicit their support so much as to ensure they will not quash the silent, nonviolent revolution which he is fomenting.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/grewell200310091025.asp (1140 words)

	TECNOBORSA SCPA - For the Development and Regulation of the Real Estate Market
		De Soto was born in Arequipa, Peru, in 1941 and did his post-graduate work at the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales in Geneva.
		De Soto, together with the ILD, is designing and implementing capital formation programs for the poor in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.
		De Soto was President Alberto Fujimori’s Personal Representative and Principal Advisor until he resigned at the time of the President’s coup d’état.
	www.tecnoborsa.com /EN/page.aspx?tid=129 (297 words)

	Art Kleiner:strategy+business Hernando de Soto
		de Soto has estimated that what he calls dead capital — assets that currently can’t be used to spur investment or economic growth and are controlled by the world’s poor — adds up to as much as $10 trillion.
		de Soto and his associates at the ILD use the term “formalization” to refer to the conversion of economies from those in which shadow economies and inconsistent property rights predominate to those in which the legalities of home and business ownership are mostly clear, welcoming, and equally accessible to everyone.
		de Soto, who is a tall, rumpled, balding, and genial-looking 62-year-old with a slight resemblance to comedian Carl Reiner and a general air of childlike insouciance, is fond of illustrating his argument to audiences by holding up a piece of fruit.
	www.well.com /~art/sbsum2004cm.html (5849 words)

	TIME Magazine: TIME 100: Hernando de Soto
		De Soto has spent years looking deep inside the underground economies where poor people — who make up two-thirds of the world's population — eke out a living.
		De Soto insists that bringing the poor and their assets into the formal economy, which is usually closed to them by oligarchies and epic red tape, would eclipse all previous development efforts.
		De Soto, 62, offers a simple solution: give these underground denizens legal title to their homes and businesses.
	www.time.com /time/subscriber/2004/time100/scientists/100desoto.html (331 words)

	An Interview with Hernando de Soto
		He has served as an economist for the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, as president of the Executive Committee of the Copper Exporting Countries Organization, as managing director of Universal Engineering Corp., as a principal of the Swiss Bank Corp. Consultant Group and as a governor of Peru's Central Reserve Bank.
		Hernando de Soto: What I take from the word capital is a notion of value, very much discussed by classical economists throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, going all the way from Adam Smith to Karl Marx, who said it was the most important part of the economy.
		[De Soto retrieves a stack of laminated paper, about six inches high and attached end to end, so that when pulled apart forms one long chain.] One of the things we worked on for President Mubarak was to illustrate, for him, the power of law, in its simplest form.
	www.globalenvision.org /library/3/590/6 (7675 words)

	Hernando de Soto's Biography
		Beginning in his native Peru, de Soto has focused on a revolutionary concept that is having repercussions throughout the world's poor countries: the lack of formal property rights as the source of poverty in poor countries.
		President Vicente Fox of Mexico sought out de Soto for help when he was the governor of the state of Guanajuato, and today de Soto is working with the Fox administration on property rights reform.
		De Soto tells these heads of state that their poor citizens are lacking formal legal title to their property and are unable to use their assets as collateral.
	www.cato.org /special/friedman/desoto/bio.html (949 words)

	Commissioner: Hernando de Soto - Peru
		President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILID), deemed by The Economist as one of the two most important think-tanks on development issues in the world.
		de Soto was chosen by Time magazine in 1999 as one of the five leading Latin American innovators of the century.
		De Soto’s most recent best-seller is The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Succeeds in the West and Fails Everywhere Else.
	www.ilo.org /public/english/wcsdg/members/desoto.htm (164 words)

	Hernando de Soto \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		December 17, 2002 11:28 AM Hernando de Soto is the founder of the Institute y Libertad Democracia, one of the world's premier think-tanks on economic development, based in Peru.
		I like de Soto's general sweep, but I was glad to read Samuelson's critique, because it points to the cultural factors that underpin the economic development that takes place where few people expect it to do so.
		What de Soto is proposing isn't so much the recognition of property but almost what you might call the creation of 'virtual property' or 'meta-property': in other words, equity.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/22377 (1414 words)

	Hernando de Soto (1941- )
		De Soto's ILD programs were considered such a threat to poverty dependent communist insurgency that the Maoist Shining Path terrorist organization targeted him and ILD for assassination/destruction in the late 1980s.
		De Soto and his ILD survived the attempts and his programs are now sought after in Latin America, Asia, and post-communist countries.
		Why Hernando De Soto is important to the ideals of freedom: Hernando De Soto saw the link between underdevelopment and poverty and lack of property rights and titles in Third World nations.
	unix.dfn.org /printer_af_DeSoto.shtml (281 words)

	Hernando de Soto
		Hernando de Soto has published two books, The Mystery of Capital and The Other Path both of which have been international bestsellers and have been translated into 20 languages.
		Hernando de Soto is President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD) headquartered in Lima, Peru.
		De Soto founded the ILD in 1983 and as President Alberto Fujimori’s Personal Representative and Principal Advisor for a time, helped to modernize Peru’s economic system.
	www.globalleadersevents.com /event-speakers/hernando-de-soto.cfm (484 words)

	Hernando de Soto: "The problem is not economic, but legal"
		De Soto said that to establish a market economy in Peru, it is not necessary to have natural resources, innovation, nor education, although the latter is important.
		Nevertheless, the economist pointed out that the main problem for Peru is not economic, but legal, and that for this reason the creation of a legal structure that will permit the development of a market economy is absolutely necessary.
		As de Soto points out by way of example, in Egypt, the wealth the poor have accumulated is worth 55 times as much as the sum of all direct foreign investment ever recorded there, including that spent on building the Suez Canal and the Aswan Dam.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1027175/posts (1334 words)

	ILD: Hernando de Soto
		de Soto is currently President of the ILD —headquartered in Lima, Peru— considered by The Economist as one of the two most important think tanks in the world.
		de Soto as one of the most important development theoreticians of the last millennium.
		de Soto, together with his colleagues at the ILD, is focused on designing and implementing capital formation programs to empower the poor in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and former Soviet Nations.
	www.ild.org.pe /eng/hsoto.htm (351 words)

	Frank Porter Graham Lectureship
		Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto has the ear of heads of state across the political spectrum as well as impoverished farmers and fl-market street vendors around the world.
		De Soto presented the Frank Porter Graham Lecture, sponsored by the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence in the College of Arts and Sciences, on October 26, 2004.
		The amount of "dead capital" in untitled assets worldwide is at least $9.3 trillion, he says, a sum that dwarfs the total amount of foreign aid given by developed nations to poor nations in the past three decades.
	www.johnstoncenter.unc.edu /events/desoto.html (853 words)

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