Every year Hernando de Soto racks up enough frequent-flier miles for a trip to the moon.
The essays on Latin American liberalism complement the research program exemplified in the work of Hernando de Soto.
Somno-capitalism In " Waking Dead Capital" Hernando de Soto is dead on target about lack of property rights in the Third World.
Previous governments have fitfully undertaken titling programmes, inspired by Hernando de Soto, a Peruvian economist who argues that enforceable property rights are the key to development.
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Everyone dealing with Iraq should be required to read Hernando de Soto's groundbreaking book, The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else.
Far from discovering the Mississippi in 1542, Hernando de Soto's main claim to fame was lending his name nearly 400 years later to a now-extinct Chrysler family sedan.
Enter Hernando de Soto, a 58-year-old Peruvian economist who made his mark a decade ago with the book The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World.
In 1539, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto landed in Florida.
Enter Hernando de Soto, a 58-year-old Peruvian economist who made his mark a decade ago with the book The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World (FORBES, Jan. 23, 1989).
The most influential work about the new slums, Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto's The Mystery of Capital, published in 2000, takes the ownership side of the debate, underscoring the limits of security of tenure.
Brian Hooks, director of the Global Prosperity Initiative at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, advocates the kind of legal reform and changes in property rights pioneered by Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto--reforms that will eventually enable the world's poor to join formal financial systems.
Yet one can't help but think that if the millions spent on such meetings were available to microcapitalists of the sort that Hernando de Soto of Peru tries to vest with private-property rights in struggling parts of the planet, we wouldn't have call for many more Sustainable Development summits.
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