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Wednesday July 15, 2015  | 11:00 a.m.

De Soto has a proposal to solve social conflicts that arise around mining projects: make communities and citizens owners of mining.

 

Yes, as you read, for the economist co-author of "The Other Path" (with Enrique Ghersi and Mario Ghibellini), mining should give villagers shares to align their interests with those of companies. De Soto's idea is that once people have shares, they also want to develop mining investments.

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