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Hernando de Soto, president of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy, discusses how economic factors, including formal and informal...
Speaker: Hernando de Soto, President, Institute for Liberty and Democracy; Author, The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World and The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
Presider: Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow and Director of the Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative, Council on Foreign Relations
April 23, 2012
Hernando de Soto, president of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy, discusses how economic factors, including formal and informal markets, property rights, entrepreneurship, and access to credit, contributed to the Arab uprisings.
This meeting is cosponsored with CFR's Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative.
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