[p2p-research] how the policies of bolivie (and venezuela) are resulting in record growth

[Michel Bauwens]

I updated my coming article with your figures on Venezuela,

they are actually compatible since the CEPR focuses before the meltdown, and
your reference, after it

what would be interesting is to see how it compares with similar countries
who followed either a neoliberal program (say Columbia) and a social
democratic one (say Brazil?)

Michel

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 4:35 AM, Ryan Lanham <rlanham1963 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/6/10, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Bolivia Stands Up for Common Wealth
>> http://www.onthecommons.org/content.php?id=2610
>>
>> Evo Morales's bold bet against privatization pays off. Posted by David
>> Bollier <http://www.onthecommons.org/profile.php?user_id=6>
>
>
> Things in Bolivia are no doubt improving.  It is a natural resource story.
> I am happy they are redistributing a large part of the wealth.  Maybe Angola
> will follow their lead.
>
> With regard to Venezuela, the picture is pretty weak to bleak:
>
> http://www.latin-focus.com/latinfocus/countries/venezuela/venezuela.htm
>
> I must admit it is not as bad as I thought, but in conventional economic
> terms, Venezuela is very week and real consumption and growth across the
> economy (and these are fair measures) has been very flat and/or declining.
> The good news is that unemployment is down sharply.  Inflation is growing
> fast and production is falling.  It is starting to look like a planned
> economy...stable employment, bad response to allocation and pricing.
>
>
>



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