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Re:Noam Chomsky Joins Faculty at University of Arizona by phowat on Saturday August 19, 2017 @05:12AM (#15052470)
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.
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Re:Noam Chomsky Joins Faculty at University of Arizona by RobertoG on Saturday August 19, 2017 @07:31AM (#15052796)
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

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Re:Noam Chomsky Joins Faculty at University of Arizona by njs12345 on Saturday August 19, 2017 @08:25AM (#15052999)
Ecuador didn't do too badly under Correa: http://cepr.net/images/stories/reports/ecuador-2017-02.pdf
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