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

Afghan government officials participate in a strategic workshop at the ILD

Afgan officials at the ILD

Lima, September 2007.- A high-level delegation from the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan visited the ILD headquarters in Lima to participate in a three-day strategic workshop with ILD staff. more


ILD President Considered One of the Twelve Most Influential Economists in History

De Soto considered one of the Twelve Most Influential Economists in the WorldZurich, May 2007.- The renowned German and Swiss publishing house Orell Füssli has released René Lüchinger's latest book --The World’s Twelve Most Influential Economists-- that lists ILD President Hernando de Soto in the company of David Ricardo, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Leon Walras, Peter Drucker, Friedrich A. Von Hayek, Milton Friedman, John Forbes Nash, John M. Keynes, Amartya Sen, and Joseph Stiglitz.


New Headline. Whatever you want to write here. Please be brief

Here comes the short copy of the third home page article. It shouls have a more link to the full info. Here comes the short copy of the third home page article. It shouls have a more link to the full info. More


Giving the Poor Their Rights

By Madeleine Albright,
Hernando de Soto

Time Magazine publishes article on Hernando de Soto and Madelaine Albright

July 05, 2007.- Margaret Atieno Okoth, 49, sells cabbage six days a week from a cramped stall in the teeming Toi market of Nairobi, alongside vendors hawking everything from secondhand shoes to bicycle parts. .... more


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