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HARD TALK FORUM: Mark Weisbrot
 
Neoliberalism Has Failed
  Fall 2007
 

  ARTICLE ENDNOTES:

  1. 
Calculations are based on constant price GDP series, (Banco Central de Venezuela,
  “
Agregados Macroeconomicos: PIB por Sectores Institucionales. Precios Constantes. Base

  1997 [Trimestral],” Banco Central de Venezuela, <http://www.bcv.org.ve/c2/indicadores.asp>
  [accessed June 18, 2007]).

  2. 
http://www.pdvsa.com/interface.sp/database/fichero/publicacion/1792/76.PDF

  3.
"Balance del avance de los servicios asistenciales de la misión Barrio Adentro,” Gobierno

  Bolivariano de Venezuela, Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Comunicación y la Información,
  February 21, 2007
<http://www.misionesbolivarianas.gob.ve/component/option,com_docman/   
  It
emid,0/task,doc_download/gid,219/
> (accessed July 20, 2007).

  4. 
Gobierno Bolivariano de Venezuela, Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Planificación y   
  Desarrollo, “Logros,”
Sistema Integrado de Indicadores Sociales de la República Bolivariana
  de Venezuela, February 2007, <
http://www.sisov.mpd.gob.ve/estudios/> (accessed July 20,
  2007).
 
  5. 
“Memoria y Cuenta 2006,” (Annual report of the Ministry of Food/Nutrition to the National

  Assembly), Gobierno Bolivariano de Venezuela, Ministerio del Poder Popular para la
  Alimentación.

  6. 
Gobierno Bolivariano de Venezuela, Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Planificación y
  Desarrollo, “Logros.”

  7.  Ibid.

  8.  Ibid.

  9. 
Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Comunicación y la Información, “Misión Robinson I y II
  al 16 de febrero de 2007,” February 27, 2007, <www.misionesbolivarianas.gob.ve/component/
  option,com_docman/Itemid,0/task,doc_download/gid,223/>.

  10. 
World Bank, World Development Indicators Online [countries: "Venezuela, RB" and "Latin
  America & Caribbean"; series: "Internet users" and "Internet users per 1,000"; years: "2005"]
  (accessed on June 6, 2006).

  11.  See Mark Weisbrot, "Bolivia's Economy: The First Year," Issue Brief, January 2007 (Center
  for Economic and Policy Research: Washington, DC),
  <http://65.181.187.63/documents/publications/bolivias_economy_the_first_year.pdf> and
  “Bolivia 2006: Article VI Consultation,” International Monetary Fund Country Report No. 06/270,   
  July 2006, <http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2006/cr06270.pdf>.

  12. 
European Commission, Eurostat (Goverment finance statistics 
  <http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat> [accessed on July 3, 2007]); Central Bank of Bolivia (Banco
  Central de Bolivia, Información Estadística, Sector Fiscal <http://www.bcb.gov.bo> [accessed   
  on   June 18, 2006]); and Venezuelan Ministry of Finance (Ministerio del Poder Popular para las
  Finanzas, Estadísticas Fiscales <http://www.mf.gov.ve> [accessed on June 18, 2007]).
 

  13.  Angus Maddison, “World Population, GDP and Per Capita GDP, 1-2001AD,”
  <www.ggdc.net/maddison/Historical_Statistics/horizontal-file.xls> (access on June 18, 2007);
  International Monetary Fund, “World Economic Outlook Database, April 2007,"
  <www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2007/01/index.htm> (accessed on June 18, 2007); and
  author’s calculations.

  14. 
Weisbrot, et al., "The Scorecard on Development: 25 Years of Diminished Progress,"
  Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs

  Working Paper No. 31 (United Nations: New York), September 2006
  <www.un.org/esa/desa/papers/2006/wp31_2006.pdf>.

 

REBUTTAL ENDNOTES:
Francisco Rodríguez' rebuttal to Mark Weisbrot's article
   

 (1).  See Williamson, John (1990) "What Washington Means by Policy Reform."  In John
  Williamson, ed., Latin American Adjustment: How Much Has Happened?  Washington, D.C.
  Institute for International Economics.

  (2).  See Pet
leos de Venezuela (2004) Petróleo y Otros Datos Estadísticos 2004, p. 93 for
  before-divided earnings and p. 99 for divided payments.

  (3).  See Banco Central de Venezuela (2007) "Producto Interno Bruto por Clase de Actividad
  Econ
ómics a precios de 1997, " http://www.bcv.org.ve/excel/5_2_4.xls?id=332.  (Accessed July
  26, 2007)
 
  (4).  Escuela de Gerencia Social (2007) "Planteles y centros de educación públicos de
  preescolar, básica y media por entidad federal"
  http://www.gerenciasocial.org.ve/bases_datos/gerenciasocial/cuadros/educacion/Planteles.zip
  (Accessed July 26, 2007).  Note that the increase in establishments is only slightly higher than   

  the increase in the school-age population in Escuela de Gerencia Social (2007)  "Proyección    
  de población por edad y sexo,"
 
http://www.gerenciasocial.org.ve/bases_datos/gerenciasocial/cuadros/poblacion/poblacionhtm/
  Proyecciones.htm
  (Accessed July 26, 2007).





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