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

    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

    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
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Democracy Video ChallengeNew York, June 15th 2009 - Economist Hernando de Soto, one of the jury members  congratulates the contest winners of the Democracy Video Challenge

More than 900 people from 95 countries competed for the grand priza of the Democracy Video Challenge.

Bloomberg desoto

Bloomberg: Hernando de Soto shares his insights on the US economy and the financial crisis. Watch the video below.

Articles and interviews where ILD President Hernando de Soto explores the underlying causes of the current financial crisis and advances strategies to confront it.

La pobreza legal de la nueva riquezaThe document is in its original language. If you wish to read an automatically translated version, please click here .

Por Hernando de Soto  NEXOS, edición de 01 mayo 2009

Property rights, a way to erradicate povertyWritten by Dorothée Enskog

CREDIT SUISSE / Online Publications - 27.04.2009

Legal reforms aimed at granting property rights to the world’s poorest can eradicate poverty and boost economic growth, says the Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto. As long as these people cannot prove what they own, they cannot secure credit and capital, and expand their businesses, he says in an interview.

America EconomiaThis article is in Spanish. If you wish to read an automatically translated version, please click here .

Entrevista en “América Economía”, abril de 2009

Los Angeles TimesWritten by Hernando de Soto

LOS ANGELES TIMES / April 12, 2009

We can't start fixing things until we can get a handle on the toxic assets behind the financial crisis.

As a Peruvian educated by British and American teachers, I learned never to embark on a major task without first "doing the math."

This document is in German. If you wish to read an automatically translated version, please click here .

Frankfurter RundschauVon Hernando de Soto   

FRANKFURTER  RUNDSCHAU / GERMANY – 08/04/2009

Die Obama-Regierung hat endlich eine Strategie entwickelt, um die eigentliche Ursache der Kreditkrise in den Griff zu bekommen - die berüchtigten "toxischen Wertpapiere", vor denen Investoren und Kreditnehmer zurückschrecken, wodurch die Kreditmärkte in der ganzen Welt blockiert werden.

This article is in Spanish. If you would like to read it in English, you can click here for an automatic translation to English or whatever language you choose.

Peru 21Por Hernando de Soto

Perú 21, 22 de marzo 2009

The GuardianNeasa MacErlean

Sunday 15 March 2009 The Bank of England can go in for quantitative easing and cut interest rates all it likes, but such a monetary approach will do very little to ease the current crisis. This is the view of Hernando de Soto, the Peruvian economist whose work with the poor has pushed him into the frame for a Nobel prize.

El ComercioThe document in this website appears in its original language. If you wish to read an automatically translated version, please click here .

Por Hernando de Soto

El Comercio, 03 de marzo 2009

CIPEPublished in Cipe Development Blog

February 25th, 2009 Oscar Abello

Look around: everything of economic value that you own - house and car titles, mortgages, checking accounts, stocks, contracts, patents, other people’s debts (including derivatives) - is documented on paper.

NewsweekThe Obama administration must tackle a problem that has bedeviled the emerging markets for years.

By Barrett Sheridan | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Feb 20, 2009

Although it's hard to believe, Wall Street's Gucci-wearing financiers actually have quite a bit in common with slum dwellers in Kenya and Mumbai at the moment-they're both mired in shadow

Hernando de Soto advierte que la economía global se encamina hacia una gran depresiónThe following article is in Spanish. If you wish to read an automatically translated version, please click here.

Por Eduardo Corrales

IBL NEWS, 9 de enero 2009

Tripoli, 21 November 2008.- GICDF signed a memorandum of understanding with the ILD providing for the development of a project to help African governments eager to help the poor by offering them legal and commercial

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