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Formalisation: An Interview with Hernando de Soto
Author(s) -
Laurie Angus
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1240
Subject(s) - amazon rainforest , indigenous , democracy , latin americans , property rights , sociology , work (physics) , political science , resource (disambiguation) , law and economics , economy , law , political economy , politics , economics , engineering , mechanical engineering , ecology , biology , computer network , computer science
The Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto is internationally renowned for his writings on the informal economy. Through his work as the President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD) in Lima, he has effectively advocated the creation of a legal system to help the poor access property rights. In his latest book, The Amazon is not Avatar , he makes a significant shift away from the problems caused by massive urban migrations to cities to focusing on the benefits of property and business rights for resource‐rich indigenous communities in the Amazon. Angus Laurie interviews De Soto on his current thinking and highlights why he has had such an important influence on social housing in Latin America. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.