Elena Panaritis
Institutional Economist and Social Entrepreneur
Elena Panaritis spent years convincing policymakers, development organizations, and local stakeholders in Peru that transformation of informal property rights is possible and that it carries sustainable economic, financial and social dividends. The actual reform application though took only three years and succeeded in bringing over 9 million Peruvians into the formal economy. She has worked in numerous countries identifying informality and developed the methodology “Reality Check Analysis” as a diagnostic tool that leads to the tailored solution of transforming informality to robust formal markets. She captures that experience in her book Prosperity Unbound: Building Property Markets with Trust (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and affirms her belief of triple-bottom-line model of social entrepreneurship as a catalyst for positive change.
Elena Panaritis has developed a property rights reform method revolutionizing policy application in economics. She successfully transformed informal property rights into vibrant, growing formal economic and social entities. She bases her work on rebuilding trust among all constituencies.
http://2010.tedxathens.com/speakers/
Excellent work that could be applied in the Hellenic Economy as well with encouraging results. This type of institutional changes are required for a robust growth in Greece.
ReplyDeleteI was there! A well-organized event in an auditorium full of people and a brilliant presentation from Elena Panaritis!
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ReplyDeleteTedxAthens, I liked a lot Elena Panariti's speech. If Elena was able to transform Peru to a growing vibrant economy why they don't give her the opportunity to do the same in Greece? This is exactly what Greece needs in our days. People like Elena Panaritis have vision, international experience, results and "pathos" to work on a transparent environment! Well done Elena Panaritis! Well done for coming back home! We do need people like you to take us out of this difficult situation!!! We want to see more from you.......
ReplyDeleteI was there too! I really enjoyed TEDXAthens and wish inspirational events such as this could take place more often. Panaritis' speech was dynamic in the sense that it left as with the aftertaste that change is possible. Good work!
ReplyDeleteElena is a brilliant thinker! I hope she can gain some momentum and implement similar reforms in Greece.
ReplyDeleteHope too
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