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Hernando de Soto
Hernando de Soto Polar is a Peruvian economist. He is known for his work on the informal economy and on the importance of business and property rights. He is the current president of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD), a think tank located in Lima, Peru, that is devoted to promoting economic development in developing countries.
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Born 2 June 1941 · Q357946
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2026· 5 entries
“neither US nor European capitalism will recover.”
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Yahoo Noticias en Español: Hernando de Soto queda fuera del Gobierno de Perú pese a anunciarse como primer ministro
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Yahoo Noticias en Español: El economista Hernando de Soto será el primer ministro del gobierno de transición de Perú
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The government of José María Balcázar announced Hernando de Soto as the new prime minister
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2025· 2 entries
insider.si.edu: The Hernando de Soto expedition : history, historiography, and "discovery" in the Southeast / edited by Patricia Galloway
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CU Boulder News & Events: The Hernando de Soto initiative
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2021· 1 entry
Campaign: 2021 presidential election.
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2017· 1 entry
Awarded Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research (2017).
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2016· 2 entries
“A Mexican Impasse for the Pope.”
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By finding solutions to the ongoing national mining crisis
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2015· 1 entry
“s statistics ignore the ninety percent of the world population that lives in developing countries and former Soviet states, whose inhabitants produce and hold their capital in the informal sector. Furthermore, he states that his institute”
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2014· 1 entry
De Soto started to refute French economist Thomas Piketty’s thesis by arguing that his recent attacks against capital in his worldwide best seller book Capital in the 21st Century were unjustified
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2012· 1 entry
“There is the visible one of palm trees and Panamanian ships, but it is the other – made up of the property information cocooned in laws and records – that allows us to organize and understand fragments of reality and join them creatively.”
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2011· 1 entry
De Soto used the findings of ILD field research in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya to make his case for "the economic roots of the Arab Spring
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2010· 1 entry
Won Hayek Medal (2010).
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2009· 1 entry
The ILD turned its attention back to Peru and the plight of the indigenous peoples of the Peruvian Amazon jungle
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2007· 1 entry
With the title rank of Assistant Under-Secretary-General; his last position was as the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process
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2006· 2 entries
De Soto served as a personal representative of President Alan García, and negotiated the Peru-United States Free Trade Agreement after 11 rounds of negotiation
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– a collection of papers presented at an international symposium in Switzerland in 2006 on the urgency of property rights in impoverished countries for small business owners, women, and other vulnerable groups, such as t
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2004· 1 entry
Investigative journalism website Bulatlat described de Soto's work as "rich people's reformism", writing "The secret to de Soto's and ILD's popularity among political, economic and developmental elites ultimately lies in
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2003· 1 entry
The CIPE would later describe the ILD as being one of its most successful programs
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2001· 3 entries
Campaign: 2001 Peruvian general election.
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“is a gringo who does not know Peru, because there are those who do. He is a foreigner to the Peruvian reality.”
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That Mexico's economy and institution would progress due to NAFTA, concluding "All poor countries are lumped together and all rich countries are lumped together; there's this imitation effect"
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2000· 1 entry
And subsequent translations, his ideas have become increasingly influential in the field of development economics
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1993· 1 entry
"the virtues of a modern society" were able to be introduced to Latin America as a result of NAFTA
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1990· 2 entries
Writing that he had represented the government when meeting with creditors and the United States representatives
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But Fujimori later requested de Soto's assistance in resolving the economic issues that were produced by the crisis of the 1980s
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1986· 1 entry
In Spanish (with a new edition in 2002 titled The Other Path, The Economic Answer to Terrorism) and in 2000, The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else (ISBN 978-0465016150)
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1984· 1 entry
De Soto received further assistance from the United States president Ronald Reagan's administration, with the National Endowment for Democracy's Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) providing ILD with fundi
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1981· 1 entry
One of the first neoliberal organizations in Latin America
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1979· 2 entries
Met with Friedrich Hayek, a free market proponent who helped create the Mont Pelerin Society
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At a time when neoliberal policy was moving from the fringes of economic theory to mainstream practice
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1967· 1 entry
Earned a master's degree in international law and economics from Graduate Institute of International Studies, also in Geneva
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1941· 1 entry
Born 1941-06-02.
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1904· 1 entry
“The Socialist Party and the Working Class”
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