Helping to build an inclusive market economy. Our Mission: to provide governments with the technical assistance --and the local capacity-- to furnish all their citizens with the crucial legal tools to gain access to the market and thus pull themselves out of poverty: inclusive property systems to hold and leverage their assets, legal forms to organize their businesses, devices to identify themselves and operate in expanded markets

 CLEP's Final Report, “Making the Law Work for Everyone”

Hernando de Soto & Madeleine Albright

(June 3rd, United Nations, NY)- The Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor (CLEP) today launched its Final Report, “Making the Law Work for Everyone”, at the United Nations in New York. The product of research, analysis, and consultations in more than 20 developing countries, the report argues that four billion people are effectively excluded from the Rule of Law, and thus deprived of a chance to lift themselves out of poverty. Read more


Swiss Government and ILD Launch New Book on Property Rights

Hernando de Soto, Francis Cheneval
left to right: Beat Loeliger, Rudolf Knoblauch, Hernando de Soto, Francis Cheneval

The Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD) announced the publication of Realizing Property Rights, co-edited by Hernando de Soto, President of the ILD, and Francis Cheneval, professor of political philosophy at the University of Zürich. The presentation took place June 23rd at the hotel Los Delfines in Lima during a seminar on property and human rights organized by the said Swiss Ministry featuring experts from all across Latin America. The book - the Spanish edition is titled El Derecho de Propiedad como Derecho Humano - brings together essays from the world's most distinguished authorities on the subject of property rights. Read more .


 Acuerdo con Afganistán

 

ILD signs Memorandum of Understanding with the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

On June 26th following an invitation from the Government of Afghanistan, an ILD delegation headed by CEO Manuel Salazar and supported by Operations Manager Luis Triveño, and International Affairs Manager Gabriel Daly visited Kabul for a three day meeting with His Excellency The Minister of Urban Development Mohd Yousaf Pashtun. Read More

 

The Mystery of Capital and the Construction of Social Reality

The U.S. publisher Open Court has released The Mystery of Capital and the Construction of Social Reality, edited by Barry Smith, David M. Mark, and Isaac Ehrlich, a collection of original essays by philosophers and social scientists addressing the connections – and implications – of the work of Hernando de Soto and the philosopher John Searle, one of the 20th Century’s most influential philosophers. Read More

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