Named as one of the world’s top twenty thinkers by Foreign Affairs and the Prospect Magazine, Hernando de Soto is a leading advocate for the use of property rights to increase living standards in the developing world. His ideas rose to prominence in the 1980s with the publication of his ground-breaking work The Other Path, and more recently with The Mystery of Capital. He is an advisor on developing economies to the World Bank and has worked for the governments of Egypt, Mexico and Latin America. Professor de Soto is currently co-chairing the United Nations Development Program’s landmark Commission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor.