ECONOMÍA/ Entrevista
Hernando de Soto
Presidente del Instituto Libertad y Democracia
El gigante asiático tiene ya mucho terreno ganado en Latinoamérica. ¿En qué radica dicho avance? El ex candidato presidencial reflexiona sobre esto y comparte, también, sus impresiones sobre la bicameralidad y el nuevo jefe del Gabinete.
María Rosa Villalobos
11/03/2024 15H42
Hernando de Soto
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Cómo activar la economía sin endeudarnos (demasiado)
6 Abril 2020
“Solo conseguir dinero vía deuda sin crear capital nos quitaría algo de la solvencia que el Estado ganó con la confianza y los ahorros nacionales acumulados durante los últimos 30 años de disciplina fiscal”.
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Como en los tiempos de Adam Smith, el Estado favorece a algunas corporaciones a través de regulaciones, impuestos, subsidios y licencias: Para los que no somos estadounidenses es a veces difícil de entender a Donald Trump porque habla y escribe en lo que el filósofo británico Bertrand Russell llamaba "manchitas de color" -- microconceptos que tienen que ser armados como un rompecabezas para con ellos formar una visión de conjunto coherente e inteligible.
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For us non-Americans it is sometimes hard to understand Donald Trump because he speaks and writes in what the British philosopher Bertrand Russell called “little patches of color”—micro-facts that must be pieced together to form a meaningful picture. For me, an economist from South America who works around the world making capitalism more inclusive and trying to adapt blockchain technology to that purpose, the picture Mr. Trump seems to be painting is that the American people and economy are being held back by elites who obtain privileges in a corrupt government that is mismanaging globalization and immigration, while failing to contain terrorism.
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LIMA – Colombian governments have been fighting the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) for the past 52 years, with no victory in sight. In early October, a razor-thin majority of voters rejected Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos’s proposed peace deal with the guerrillas.Compare Colombia’s experience with that of Peru, which defeated its own guerrilla movement, the Shining Path, in less than a dozen years, from 1980 to 1992, with more than 85% popular support. Peru was able to achieve a lasting peace for two reasons.
LIMA – Colombia ha estado luchando contra el terrorismo de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias (FARC) por los últimos 52 años y, sin embargo, aún no ha ganado la guerra. A principios de octubre la mayoría de los colombianos rechazaron el plan del gobierno del presidente Santos para pacificar el país.El Perú, por su parte, venció al terrorismo de Sendero Luminoso en menos de doce años (de 1980 a 1992) y más del 85% de su población aprobó esta victoria.
LIMA – Nowadays, globalization’s opponents seem increasingly to be drowning out its defenders. If they get their way, the post-World War II international order – which aimed, often successfully, to advance peace and prosperity through exchange and connection – could well collapse. Can globalization be saved? At first glance, the outlook appears grim. Every aspect of globalization – free trade, free movement of capital, and international migration – is under attack. Leading the charge are antagonistic forces – from populist political parties to separatist groups to terrorist organizations – whose actions tend to focus more on what they oppose than on what they support.
LIMA – La des-globalización no está representada solamente por el Brexit o el creciente proteccionismo estadounidense. Es una actitud negativa contra la globalización promovida por diversos movimientos autónomos y antagónicos tales como el anti-universalismo occidental en Eurasia, el anti-federalismo en Europa Oriental, el neo-marxismo tipo Piketty en Europa Occidental, y el terrorismo del Estado Islámico en el Medio Oriente.
Pope Francis’ visit to Mexico last week took an unexpected turn when he singled out Donald Trump, telling reporters that there are people in the U.S. who have no right to be there and anybody who wants to build borders “is not Christian.” The public spat over immigration made news, with Trump saying the U.S. has the right to close its borders and refuse documentation of the 11 million illegal immigrants living in the U.S. To this effect, as Trump said, the Pope just “doesn’t understand” America’s problems.
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