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Lessons from the poor : triumph of the entrepreneurial spirit / edited by Alvaro Vargas Llosa.
- Title
- Lessons from the poor : triumph of the entrepreneurial spirit / edited by Alvaro Vargas Llosa.
- Publication
- Oakland, CA : Independent Institute, c2008.
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- Additional Authors
- Vargas Llosa, Alvaro.
- Description
- xxii, 280 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Half the people in the world live on two dollars or less per day and roughly 600 million live on no more than one dollar per day. With thousands of international relief organizations, strategic government programs, and billions of dollars in foreign aid, why do so many underdeveloped countries remain unable to grow their economies beyond mere survival? It is this issue that internationally acclaimed political analyst Alvaro Vargas Llosa and a select group of economists examine in a series of case studies from around the world. These studies reveal that entrepreneurial energy can be a persistent catalyst for change. But unfortunately in societies dominated by political corruption and unnecessary regulation, men and women seeking to innovate must hurdle a series of challenges. Wealth transfer, favoritism, excessive taxation, and lack of institutional security all conspire against progress. Our contributors examine real world examples of entrepreneurship and argue that instead of redistributing existing wealth, developing countries should start working to create it.
- Subject
- Entrepreneurship > Developing countries
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Amid hopelessness, hopeful investment : the case of the Añaños family and Kola Real / Daniel Córdova -- Defeating poverty doing business : the case of the Flores family and Topy Top / Daniel Córdova -- Nakumatt : a Kenyan supermarket / June Arunga and Scott Beaulier -- The Nigerian clothing design industry / Thompson Ayodele -- Barter clubs in Argentina : the market's response to the failure of the state / Martín Simonetta, Gustavo Lazzari, and Gabriel Gasave -- Freedom, entrepreneurship, and economic growth / Joshua C. Hall and Russell S. Sobel.
- ISBN
- 9781598130201 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2008012175
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library