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The other path:

the economic answer to terrorism
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Basic Books, 2002 - Business & Economics - 273 pages
In this, his classic book on the informal economy of Peru and the reasons why poverty can be a breeding ground for terrorists, Hernando De Soto describes the forces that keep people dependent on underground economies: the bureaucratic barriers to legal property ownership and the lack of legal structures that recognize and encourage ownership of assets. It is exactly these forces, de Soto argues, that prevent houses, land, and machines from functioning as capital does in the West--as assets that can be leveraged to create more capital. Under the Fujimori government, de Soto's Institute for Liberty and Democracy wrote dozens of laws to promote property rights and bring people out of the informal economy and into the legitimate one. The result was not only an economic boon for Peru but also the defeat of the Shining Path, the terrorist movement and black-market force that was then threatening to take over the Peruvian government. In a new preface, de Soto relates his work to the present moment, making the connection between the Shining Path in the 1980's and the Taliban today.
  

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In The Other Path, Hernando de Soto makes the populist argument for capitalism and property rights in the 3rd world. The social and economic environment of many 3rd world nations resembles feudalism ... Read full review

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The other path: the economic answer to terrorism
The other path: the economic answer to terrorism
Hernando de Soto
Snippet view - 2002
The other path: the economic answer to terrorism
The other path: the economic answer to terrorism
Hernando de Soto
Snippet view - 2002
The other path: the invisible revolution in the Third World
The other path: the invisible revolution in the Third World
Hernando de Soto,June Abbott,Instituto Libertad y Democracia (Lima, Peru)
Snippet view - 1990
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Hernando de Soto (economist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
De Soto has published two books about economic and political development: The Other Path: The economic answer to terrorism, and at the end of 2000, ...
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World History Connected | Vol. 3 No. 3| Book Review
The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism (New York: Perseus Books. 1989). 304 pp, $9.75. The Other Path is about the quest for life's basics ...
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The Other Path » Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Blog
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Title: The Other Path. The Economic Answer to Terrorism. Publisher: United States: Basic Books. Publication date: 1989. Description: 273 p. ...
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News from the Washington File
In February 12 remarks before the conference "The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism," Evans outlined the importance of encouraging economic ...
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About the author (2002)

Hernando de Soto is President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD), headquartered in Lima, Peru. He was named one of the five leading Latin American innovators of the century by Time magazine in its May 1999 issue on "Leaders for the New Millennium." De Soto played an integral role in the modernization of Peru's economic and political system as President Alberto Fujimori's Personal Representative and Principal Adviser. His previous book, The Other Path, was a best seller throughout Latin America and the U.S. He and ILD are currently working on the practical implementation of the measures for bringing the poor into the economic mainstream introduced in The Mystery of Capital. He lives in Lima, Peru.

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TitleThe other path: the economic answer to terrorism
AuthorHernando de Soto
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherBasic Books, 2002
ISBN0465016103, 9780465016105
Length273 pages
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