dead capital

Haiti's poor have $5.2 billion in dead capital, he announced.

Therefore, for their owners, this enormous investment was "dead capital."

These lost forms of value are dead capital.

Groups working to solve the dead capital problem

Trantor, dead capital of the dead Empire - the planet on which she was born.

De Soto estimates there is US$ 9.3 trillion in dead capital globally.

Problems associated with dead capital

Dead capital is an economic term related to property which is informally held that it is not legally recognized.

The term dead capital was coined by Peruvian Economist Hernando de Soto Polar.

An elite minority enjoys the economic benefits of the law and globalization, while the majority of entrepreneurs are stuck in poverty, where their assets -adding up to more than US$ 10 trillion worldwide- languish as dead capital in the shadows of the law."