Re:Noam Chomsky Joins Faculty at University of Arizona
by phowat on Saturday August 19, 2017 @05:12AM
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Which social democracy is doing well here in south america? We are currently paying the price for all the post-socialist economical measures here in Brazil.It's not pretty.
Re:Noam Chomsky Joins Faculty at University of Arizona
by RobertoG on Saturday August 19, 2017 @07:31AM
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As I have some Brazilian friends that disagree with you I went to the statistic data and it doesn't look so bad.
For instance,the poverty headcount:
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.NAHC?locations=BR
Specially against this one, a growing population:
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?locations=BR
Re:Noam Chomsky Joins Faculty at University of Arizona
by njs12345 on Saturday August 19, 2017 @08:25AM
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Ecuador didn't do too badly under Correa: http://cepr.net/images/stories/reports/ecuador-2017-02.pdf
The fact that social democratic countries in Latin America have overall had better development than extreme free market societies like haiti or pre-socialist Brazil is pretty widely accepted, dutch disease inflicted Venezuela notwithstanding.