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The other path : the economic answer to terrorism / Hernando de Soto.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: engspa Publication details: New York : BasicBooks, c1989.Description: xxxix, 273 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0465016103
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HD2346.P4 .S67 1989
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Informal Housing -- 3. Informal Trade -- 4. Informal Transport -- 5. The Costs and Importance of the Law -- 6. The Redistributive Tradition -- 7. The Parallel with Mercantilism -- 8. Conclusion.
Review: "The Fight Against Terrorism is not military. In the long term it is also - perhaps even primarily - economic. How do we create economic and social conditions in third-world countries that will prevent terrorist organizations and ideas from taking root? How do we give ordinary people in these countries better alternatives than supporting drug lords or terrorists?Summary: In The Other Path, Hernando de Soto describes how he and his organization, the Institute for Liberty and Democracy, faced this problem in Peru in the 1980s - and how they solved it."--BOOK JACKET.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Vol info Status Date due Barcode
Main Long Main Long Martin Oduor-Otieno Library This item is located on the library first floor Non-fiction HD2346.P4 .S67 1989 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 22147/10 Available Z00042273
Main Long Main Long Martin Oduor-Otieno Library This item is located on the library first floor Non-fiction HD2346.P4 .S67 1989 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 22200/10 Available Z00042355
Main Long Main Long Martin Oduor-Otieno Library This item is located on the library first floor Non-fiction HD2346.P4 .S67 1989 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 22201/10 Available Z00042351
Main Long Main Long Martin Oduor-Otieno Library This item is located on the library first floor Non-fiction HD2346.P4 .S67 1989 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 22202/10 Available Z00042350
Main Long Main Long Martin Oduor-Otieno Library This item is located on the library first floor Non-fiction HD2346.P4 .S67 1989 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 22203/10 Available Z00042348
Main Long Main Long Martin Oduor-Otieno Library This item is located on the library first floor Non-fiction HD2346.P4 .S67 1989 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 22204/10 Available Z00042286
Main Long Main Long Martin Oduor-Otieno Library This item is located on the library first floor Non-fiction HD2346.P4 .S67 1989 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 22242/10 Available Z00042288
Main Long Main Long Martin Oduor-Otieno Library This item is located on the library first floor Non-fiction HD 2346 .P4 S67 1989 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 22243/10 Available Z00042289
Main Long Main Long Martin Oduor-Otieno Library This item is located on the library first floor Non-fiction HD2346.P4 .S67 1989 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 24036/11 Available Z00048746
Main Long Main Long Martin Oduor-Otieno Library This item is located on the library first floor Non-fiction HD2346.P4 .S67 1989 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 24283/11 Available Z00049206

includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. Informal Housing -- 3. Informal Trade -- 4. Informal Transport -- 5. The Costs and Importance of the Law -- 6. The Redistributive Tradition -- 7. The Parallel with Mercantilism -- 8. Conclusion.

"The Fight Against Terrorism is not military. In the long term it is also - perhaps even primarily - economic. How do we create economic and social conditions in third-world countries that will prevent terrorist organizations and ideas from taking root? How do we give ordinary people in these countries better alternatives than supporting drug lords or terrorists?

In The Other Path, Hernando de Soto describes how he and his organization, the Institute for Liberty and Democracy, faced this problem in Peru in the 1980s - and how they solved it."--BOOK JACKET.

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