The mystery of capital : the role of property rights in creating wealth and alleviating poverty

By H. D. Soto. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Entrepreneurship in Russia and China: The Impact of Formal Institutional Voids (2010, background): “Furthermore, the fact that individuals cannot get titles to the lands that they work in limits their access to credit and prevents them from building viable businesses independent of their communities (Soto, 2000).”
Entrepreneurship and the Informal Sector (2009, background): “This more entrepreneurial re-reading of the informal sector first emerged in a majority (Third) World context (Cross, 2000; Cross and Morales, 2007; De Soto, 1989, 2001; ILO, 2002a; Rakowski, 1994).”
Inside and Outside Liquidity (2011, result): “Our approach thus fits well with de Soto (2003)’s view that a major role of a financial system is to transform “dead capital” into “live capital”.”
Does Economic Growth Reduce Corruption? Theory and Evidence from Vietnam (2013, neutral): “De Soto (1989) and De Soto (2000) famously predicted that through the provision of land titles, entrepreneurs in the informal sector could be transformed into an important source of economic 3At the cross-country level, the most related work is Treisman (2000), who finds that per-capita income,…”
The Informal Sector (2007, neutral): “of capital for informal activities has been emphasized by DeSoto [ 4 ] who wrote that “Even in the poorest countries, the poor save.”
Capital is not enough: opportunity entrepreneurship and formal institutions (2018, neutral): “In high-quality institutional environments, entrepreneurs face less uncertainty due to stable monetary policy, lower administrative, labor, and financial costs, which ultimately lowers the costs of starting and operating new business ventures (De Soto 2000).”
Innovation in informal settings: reflections and proposals for a research agenda (2014, background): “A legalist school (de Soto 1989, 2000) sees the informal sector as comprised of plucky micro-entrepreneurs who choose to operate informally in order to avoid the unnecessary and burdensome costs, time and effort of formal registration and who need legal rights to convert their assets into formal…”
Delineating the Domain of Development Entrepreneurship: A Market–Based Approach to Facilitating Inclusive Economic Growth (2011, background): “Three of the most prominent proponents of market-friendly reforms in LDCs are Hernando DeSoto (2000), C.K. Prahalad (2005), and Muhammad Yunus (2007).”