¿Qué ha causado entonces la informalidad en la que vivimos? Hernando de Soto, presidente del Instituto Libertad y Democracia (ILD) apunta a que son precisamente estas regulaciones y deficiencias en la titulación de la propiedad. El problema no sería el supuesto capitalismo sino la falta de este. ¿Cómo así?
Go to Google Maps and take a look at a township in South Africa, a slum in India or a favela in Brazil. The website will show you a few roads, surrounded by plenty of blank space. Now switch to satellite view, and you'll discover teeming cityscapes, bustling with life in unmapped houses and businesses, along hundreds of uncharted streets. Or check out Nairobi, Kenya, where you will see many roads, but the streets have no names.
Between 1990 and 2012, Peru’s middle class grew four times faster than the rest of Latin America’s. Why? Because it is an emancipation movement that has been metamorphosing for half a century: From low-income classes to migrants, then to “informals,” the sector from which the new middle class has emerged as the engine of Peru’s impressive economic growth.
Al cierre del 2015, el primer medio digital en español: esglobal, ha publicado su lista anual de los 50 intelectuales iberoamericanos más influyentes, en la que figuran nombres que "están marcando líneas nuevas y diferentes en sus respectivas disciplinas", entre escritores, politólogos, periodistas, científicos, músicos, ecologistas y economistas.
Spanish-speaking area: While only a few Spaniards are among the most influential thought leaders in the Spanish-speaking area, South Americans, by contrast, occupy 15 of the top 20 places in this language area.
On December 15th 2015, ILD's Hernando de Soto conducted an interview in French on Algeria's Radio M. During the interview he spoke about the informal economy and the root causes of the Arab Spring.
Este año la lista de 50 intelectuales iberoamericanos de esglobal es probablemente más heterogénea que nunca. Hay algunos clásicos, desde luego. También hay nombres que serán desconocidos para parte de nuestros lectores, nombres que sin embargo están marcando líneas nuevas, y diferentes, en sus respectivas disciplinas.
A Peruvian economist, Hernando de Soto, made a study of Egyptian real estate in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and estimated that it took six to 14 years to register a dwelling on desert land bought from the state, and that registering one built on agricultural land bordered on the impossible.
Hernando de Soto, the Peruvian economist and anti poverty campaigner, estimates that five billion people live without adequate records. They face serious challenges in documenting their economic activities, their assets, even their existence.
Until now, de Soto has depended on political persuasion to try to address this problem. But now he’s getting help from new technologies that could fast-track the creation of permanent registries and give people manifest power to execute their property rights. One of the most promising solutions arises from open-source software called the block chain that underlies digital currencies such as Bitcoin.
Un encuentro histórico sostuvo el economista peruano Hernando de Soto con el Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, en el pueblo de Dharamsala, en la India. El líder espiritual del Tibet, lo invitó a su residencia en el exilio, junto a un exclusivo grupo de intelectuales de relevancia internacional.
In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera, Daniel Hannan, secretary-general of the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists (AECR), stressed the aim of organising a summit of centre-right-wing parties in Tunisia was not an attempt to impose Western norms on Muslim-majority countries.
Hannan said the aim of the event was, on the contrary, an attempt to stress shared principles on both sides of the Mediterranean through strengthening mainstream free-market and conservative parties in emerging democracies in North Africa and the Middle East.
Between 1990 and 2012, Peru’s middle class grew four times faster than the rest of Latin America’s. Why? Because it is an emancipation movement that has been metamorphosing for half a century: From low-income classes to migrants, then to “informals,” the sector from which the new middle class has emerged as the engine of Peru’s impressive economic growth.
The theme for the first panel of the second day of the American Enterprise Institute’s Symposium with His Holiness the Dalai Lama was the ‘Power of Free Enterprise’. Panellists were Hernando de Soto from the Institute for Liberty and Democracy, Shiv Khemka of the Global Education & Leadership Foundation and Vishnu Swaminathan of Ashoka Innovators for the Public. Sadanand Dhume was moderator.
America is the land people set sail for–to get away from big government, to find freedom, to make their fortune. We have to first understand what made America great before we can even think about influencing the rest of the world. Some candidates for President like Hillary Clinton and Sen. Marco Rubio think we should spread American style-freedom and democracy around the world.