Reality Check with Élena
Our new podcast explores the realities that lead to informality: a notion represented by reduction of the middle class, and spread of insecurity, through a series of dynamic on-the-ground interviews in Europe, the US, and the Global south.
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Episode 7 — Mercedes Aráoz: How Property Rights Transformed Peru (opens the original)
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In Tunis this time, Élena sits with economist and former Peruvian Prime Minister Mercedes Aráoz to explore how Peru transformed from a country plagued by hyperinflation, terrorism, debt, and widespread poverty into a more open and dynamic market economy. Aráoz explains how reforms in the 1990s strengthened property rights, expanded economic freedom, opened Peru to global trade, and created new opportunities for entrepreneurs and ordinary families. They discuss the dramatic reduction in poverty,
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