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Hernando de Soto  

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  • RECIPIENT OF THE Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty, Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto is an extraordinary individual. Returning to his native Peru in 1979 following a successful business career in Europe, de Soto began to study the question of poverty and asked why some countries are developed and affluent and others are not. [Source: Encyclopedia of World Poverty; de Soto, Hernando (1941–)]

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