Yeah, I'm probably overly vague about "accepted public services." More specifically, the kind of thing De Soto seemed to focus on are property recording systems

Yeah, I'm probably overly vague about "accepted public services." More specifically, the kind of thing De Soto seemed to focus on are property recording systems, functioning courts working on reasonably well-defined property law, and permitting/review/accounting that makes economic activity legible. These aren't super sexy public institutions, and it may well be they aren't sufficient for a truly thriving society, but they are basic entry level public components of a functioning private enterprise system, and apparently more than a few attempts to export US capitalism have failed to account for them.