Otro sendero
by Hernando de Soto · first published 1989
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"The Fight Against Terrorism is not military. In the long term it is also - perhaps even primarily - economic. How do we create economic and social conditions in third-world countries that will prevent terrorist organizations and ideas from taking root? How do we give ordinary people in these countries better alternatives than supporting drug lords or terrorists? In The Other Path, Hernando de Soto describes how he and his organization, the Institute for Liberty and Democracy, faced this problem in Peru in the 1980s - and how they solved it."--BOOK JACKET.
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Read the same book, along with the much denser "El Otro Sendero" (the other path), which focuses more on Peru alone, and to date I haven't found a better detailed chain of reasoning for why countries get rich and developed across the board, or stay poor, or as in…
on “How do poor countries get rich?” ↗Thank you for the link. An English translation of the referenced title (Hernando de Soto's 'El otro sendero') is available in the extended network of my public library system, and I have placed a hold on it.
on “Internal FBI risk assessment of Bitcoin network [pdf]” ↗The exact lunacies and irrationality that this Economist article describes are something that the Peruvian economist Hernando De Soto described in enormous detail in his book "The Other Path" (El Otro Sendero) roughly three decades ago when describing the at the time deeply dysfunctional aspects of regulatory administration in his native country, and in other Latin American states. He later wrote an abbreviated…
on “India: Income Tax Bill allows officials to forcibly access social media, email” ↗