The Power of the Poor
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Overview
Hernando de Soto and his team of researchers found that an astonishing ninety-eight percent of all businesses in Peru were extralegal, as was eighty-eight percent of all rural property. It was clear the majority of Peru’s entrepreneurs had been locked out of the legal system.