{"id":182,"date":"2005-10-16T08:20:47","date_gmt":"2005-10-16T07:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/10\/16\/weltwochech-article-on-hernando-de-soto\/"},"modified":"2016-02-21T17:47:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T16:47:31","slug":"weltwochech-article-on-hernando-de-soto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/2005\/10\/weltwochech-article-on-hernando-de-soto\/","title":{"rendered":"Weltwoche.ch article on Hernando de Soto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Absurd bureaucracy in many poor countries leads to the fact that only the rich and well-connected elite  can get around the laws and regulations.  Better than doubling development aid and cancelling debts  would be to promote private property,  set up a fair legal system and a free economy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nDie Entwicklungsl\u00e4nder, sagt er, k\u00f6nnten die Armut aus eigener Kraft bew\u00e4ltigen. Dazu br\u00e4uchten sie keine Verdoppelung der Hilfsgelder und auch keinen Schuldenerlass, wie das j\u00fcngst der G-8-Gipfel in Schottland beschloss und diese Woche der Uno-Gipfel in New York bekr\u00e4ftigt hat. Erfolgversprechender als alle Milliardengeschenke, sagt der Sohn eines sozialistischen Politikers, seien: Privateigentum, Rechtsstaatlichkeit und Marktwirtschaft. Diese Botschaft verbreitet de Soto mit dem Talent zum eing\u00e4ngigen Beispiel. Beschw\u00f6rend sch\u00fcttelt er beide Arme und sagt heiser: \u00abVergessen Sie doch Ihre eigene Geschichte nicht. Die Schweiz war noch im 19. Jahrhundert das Armenhaus Europas, ein Drittweltland mit nur wenigen nat\u00fcrlichen Rohstoffen. Auch sie wurde nicht dank Entwicklungshilfe wohlhabend, sondern weil sie sich eine funktionierende Marktwirtschaft und einen intakten Rechtsstaat schuf.\u00bb <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>source: Weltwoche.ch<\/p>\n<p>Further link on Hernando de Soto:<br \/>\nBiography<\/p>\n<p>Example how external aid supports unproductive policies:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>James Shikwati, who heads the Inter Region Economic Network, a Kenyan NGO, says drought aid to his country in the 1990s &#8220;killed production&#8221; in many areas and increased dependency.<\/p>\n<p>Aid can also encourage misguided policies. Mr Shikwati says this has been the case in Ethiopia, where farmers are not allowed to own land.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of introducing reforms, he notes, the government appeals for aid.<\/p>\n<p>When donors respond, Mr Shikwati says, &#8220;they are subsidising a government policy that makes it difficult for people to be productive&#8221;. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/4185550.stm\">BBC NEWS | Africa | Can aid do more harm than good?<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absurd bureaucracy in many poor countries leads to the fact that only the rich and well-connected elite can get around the laws and regulations. Better than doubling development aid and cancelling debts would be to promote private property, set up a fair legal system and a free economy. Die Entwicklungsl\u00e4nder, sagt er, k\u00f6nnten die Armut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1LJxC-2W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}