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SOURCE CITATIONS
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/
Itemid,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 Petróleos
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
Económics 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).