Hernando de Soto awarded Important Distinction in Europe

The 2017 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research goes to Hernando de Soto

The Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research is the most prominent international award in entrepreneurship research with a price sum of EUR 100,000. De Soto’s analyses have had tremendous influence on policy throughout the world and were a main source of inspiration for the World Bank’s Doing Business program. Read More

2017 Award Winner

Hernando de Soto Peru Institute for Liberty and Democracy For developing a new understanding of the institutions that underpin the informal economy as well as the role of property rights and entrepreneurship in converting the informal economy into the formal sector. Read More

HernandodeSotoawaredEurope 19 October 2009 - ILD President Hernando de Soto received one of the highest academic distinctions in Europe. He was named Honorary Member of the University Philosophical Society of Trinity College, Dublin, the world's oldest intellectual debate forum.

Other members of this society include Friedrich Engels, Karl Popper, Winston Churchill, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Becket, Bram Stoker, Desmond Tutu, and John McCain. More

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