{"id":409,"date":"2014-04-12T15:31:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T14:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/?p=409"},"modified":"2016-02-18T15:34:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T14:34:05","slug":"after-10-years-of-criticism-what-is-left-of-de-sotos-ideas-by-paul-van-der-molen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/2014\/04\/12\/after-10-years-of-criticism-what-is-left-of-de-sotos-ideas-by-paul-van-der-molen\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;After 10 years of criticism: what is left of De Soto&#8217;s ideas&#8221; by Paul van der Molen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/De_soto_book_en.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-410\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-410 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/De_soto_book_en-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"De_soto_book_en\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/De_soto_book_en-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/De_soto_book_en.jpg 326w, https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/De_soto_book_en-16x24.jpg 16w, https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/De_soto_book_en-23x36.jpg 23w, https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/02\/De_soto_book_en-31x48.jpg 31w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a>I guess that this abstract will encourage those who read the\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Mystery-Capital-Capitalism-Everywhere\/dp\/0465016154\" target=\"_blank\">Mystery of Capital<\/a>&#8220;, the best seller of Hernando de Soto published in 2000 should read this article by\u00a0<a title=\"vandermolen_de_soto\" href=\"http:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/vandermolen_de_soto.pd\" target=\"_blank\">Paul van der Molen<\/a><em>. &#8220;In this book De Soto\u00a0 advocates that politicians take measures\u00a0to provide the informal sector with access to the<\/em><em>\u00a0formal economy by the granting formal property rights and to break\u00a0down bureaucratic barriers. The book has been influential. As if\u00a0before 2000 nothing was published on property rights, titling and\u00a0development, de Soto was invited by governments and<\/em><em>\u00a0international organizations to convey his new message. Bill\u00a0Clinton called him &#8216;the greatest living economist&#8217; (World Urban\u00a0Forum, Davos). Since\u00a0 the publication of the book, criticism\u00a0poured in. Especially the academia sought publicity to render\u00a0scientific evidence that de Soto\u2019s solution will not work, such as\u00a0de Soto&#8217;s solution not for South Africa&#8217; (B. Cousins), \u2018The De\u00a0Soto Delusion\u2019 (Gravois) or &#8216;The wrong prescription for the<\/em><em>\u00a0wrong malady&#8217; (Bromley) to name a few&#8221;.<\/em>\u00a0It looks like that property rights whether formal or informal are\u00a0not a silver bullet per se but without them development is\u00a0impossible. Van der Molen&#8217;s\u00a0 wisely concludes that &#8220;governments which\u00a0demonstrate political will and which adopt the principles of good\u00a0governance, are a prerequisite&#8221;. This is true for the conservation of\u00a0most environmental resources.<\/p>\n<p>f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess that this abstract will encourage those who read the\u00a0&#8220;Mystery of Capital&#8220;, the best seller of Hernando de Soto published in 2000 should read this article by\u00a0Paul van der Molen. &#8220;In this book De Soto\u00a0 advocates that politicians take measures\u00a0to provide the informal sector with access to the\u00a0formal economy by the granting formal property <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/2014\/04\/12\/after-10-years-of-criticism-what-is-left-of-de-sotos-ideas-by-paul-van-der-molen\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Read more about &#8220;After 10 years of criticism: what is left of De Soto&#8217;s ideas&#8221; by Paul van der Molen<\/span>[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icrei.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}