New 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.
New 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.
Articles and interviews where ILD President Hernando de Soto explores the underlying causes of the current financial crisis and advances strategies to confront it.
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Por Hernando de Soto NEXOS, edición de 01 mayo 2009
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.
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Entrevista en “América Economía”, abril de 2009
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."
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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.
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Por Hernando de Soto
Perú 21, 22 de marzo 2009
Neasa 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.
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Por Hernando de Soto
El Comercio, 03 de marzo 2009
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.
The 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
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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