É POSSÍVEL EQUACIONAR O PROBLEMA DA POBREZA VIA ECONOMIA DE MERCADO?

A política de formalização da propriedade imobiliária em Hernando de Soto

Abstract

This paper describes and makes a critical analysis on the conception of land tenure policy held up by the Peruvian economist Hernando De Soto. It aims to construe De Soto’s point of view, which is based on the formalization of urban poor’s real estates in the undeveloped nations. In that point of view, land formalization is seen as a strategic tool to alleviate the poverty and to make capitalism well succeed among those nations. Along the paper is cleared that, despite his critics on mainstream thinking, De Soto never abandons the classical Economy fundamental topics and that he tries to find a capitalistic answer to social claiming. This way capitalism could be empowered and that would avoid its disruption. Besides, the paper debates some theoretical and political consequences of De Soto’s thinking, in order to call the attention to results of the policies like these proposed by him. Some theoretical hypothesis about the meaning of Latin American existing land regularization policies are built based on the analysis of De Soto’s theories. An example could be that which see a relation between these current policies and the struggles among several capitalist agents, who act in different scales, by the ruling of increasing market parts.