The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) - Opening Plenary Session

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

Hernando de Soto, President of Peruvian Institute for Liberty and Democracy, participated in the The Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Latin America, the first CGI meeting held in Latin America, at Copacabana Palace Hotel in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on December 9, 2013.

In his opening presentation, President Clinton asks Hernando de Soto a series of question (starting at minute 40:22 of the the live stream video), when he recalls his first conversations with Hernando about Egypt and how it takes forever to open up a simple business legally.

Click on the image below to watch the video.

The webcast is also available in Spanish (http://cgilink.org/cgilaes).