Regional Development Policy
Author | : John Friedmann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Regional planning |
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Author | : John Friedmann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Regional planning |
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Author | : Venezuela-British Guiana Boundary Arbitration |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1899 |
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Author | : William Neuman |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1250266165 |
Richly reported...a thorough and important history." -Tim Padgett, The New York Times A nuanced and deeply-reported account of the collapse of Venezuela, and what it could mean for the rest of the world. Today, Venezuela is a country of perpetual crisis—a country of rolling blackouts, nearly worthless currency, uncertain supply of water and food, and extreme poverty. In the same land where oil—the largest reserve in the world—sits so close to the surface that it bubbles from the ground, where gold and other mineral resources are abundant, and where the government spends billions of dollars on public works projects that go abandoned, the supermarket shelves are bare and the hospitals have no medicine. Twenty percent of the population has fled, creating the largest refugee exodus in the world, rivaling only war-torn Syria’s crisis. Venezuela’s collapse affects all of Latin America, as well as the United States and the international community. Republicans like to point to Venezuela as the perfect example of the emptiness of socialism, but it is a better model for something else: the destructive potential of charismatic populist leadership. The ascent of Hugo Chávez was a precursor to the emergence of strongmen that can now be seen all over the world, and the success of the corrupt economy he presided over only lasted while oil sold for more than $100 a barrel. Chávez’s regime and policies, which have been reinforced under Nicolás Maduro, squandered abundant resources and ultimately bankrupted the country. Things Are Never So Bad That They Can’t Get Worse is a fluid combination of journalism, memoir, and history that chronicles Venezuela’s tragic journey from petro-riches to poverty. Author William Neuman witnessed it all firsthand while living in Caracas and serving as the New York Times Andes Region Bureau Chief. His book paints a clear-eyed, riveting, and highly personal portrait of the crisis unfolding in real time, with all of its tropical surrealism, extremes of wealth and suffering, and gripping drama. It is also a heartfelt reflection of the country’s great beauty and vibrancy—and the energy, passion, and humor of its people, even under the most challenging circumstances.
Author | : Trudie O. Coker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Venezuela |
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Author | : Ricardo Hausmann |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 549 |
Release | : 2015-06-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0271064641 |
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Venezuela had one of the poorest economies in Latin America, but by 1970 it had become the richest country in the region and one of the twenty richest countries in the world, ahead of countries such as Greece, Israel, and Spain. Between 1978 and 2001, however, Venezuela’s economy went sharply in reverse, with non-oil GDP declining by almost 19 percent and oil GDP by an astonishing 65 percent. What accounts for this drastic turnabout? The editors of Venezuela Before Chávez, who each played a policymaking role in the country’s economy during the past two decades, have brought together a group of economists and political scientists to examine systematically the impact of a wide range of factors affecting the economy’s collapse, from the cost of labor regulation and the development of financial markets to the weakening of democratic governance and the politics of decisions about industrial policy. Aside from the editors, the contributors are Omar Bello, Adriana Bermúdez, Matías Braun, Javier Corrales, Jonathan Di John, Rafael Di Tella, Javier Donna, Samuel Freije, Dan Levy, Robert MacCulloch, Osmel Manzano, Francisco Monaldi, María Antonia Moreno, Daniel Ortega, Michael Penfold, José Pineda, Lant Pritchett, Cameron A. Shelton, and Dean Yang.
Author | : Fernando German M. |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2019-03-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781091678798 |
The work presents, to a large extent, an analysis of the history of Venezuela, from 1991 to 2019, touching on various aspects, such as: the causes that gave origin and boom to Chavez, both in Venezuela and in other countries ; the creation of a fraudulent electoral system and illegal financing; Cuban influence within the country; the corruption scandals; the persecution to the media; the various economic measures taken by both Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro; the role of the Venezuelan opposition; or the exodus of millions of Venezuelans.An interesting work, which denounces the dangers that the so-called Socialism of the 21st century contains.
Author | : Jennifer McCoy |
Publisher | : US Institute of Peace Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1601270682 |
International Mediation in Venezuela analyzes the effort of the Carter Center and the broader international community to prevent violent conflict, to reconcile a deeply divided society, and to preserve democratic processes. From their perspective as facilitators of the intervention and as representatives of the Carter Center, Jennifer McCoy and Francisco Diez present an insider account of mediation at the national and international level.
Author | : Venezuela |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Guyana |
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Author | : Richard E. Dibble |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Venezuela |
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Author | : Jonathan Di John |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2015-12-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0271076909 |
Since the discovery of abundant oil resources in the 1920s, Venezuela has had an economically privileged position among the nations of Latin America, which has led to its being treated by economic and political analysts as an exceptional case. In her well-known study of Venezuela’s political economy, The Paradox of Plenty (1997), Stanford political scientist Terry Karl argued that this oil wealth induced extraordinary corruption, rent-seeking, and centralized intervention that resulted in restricting productivity and growth. What this and other studies of Venezuela’s economy fail to explain, however, is how such conditions have accompanied both growth and stagnation at different periods of Venezuela’s history and why countries experiencing similar levels of corruption and rent-seeking produce divergent developmental outcomes. By investigating the record of economic development in Venezuela from 1920 to the present, Jonathan Di John shows that the key to explaining why the economy performed much better between 1920 and 1980 than in the post-1980 period is to understand how political strategies interacted with economic strategies—specifically, how politics determined state capacity at any given time and how the stage of development and development strategies affected the nature of political conflicts. In emphasizing the importance of an approach that looks at the political economy, not just at the economy alone, Di John advances the field methodologically while he contributes to a long-needed history of Venezuela’s economic performance in the twentieth century.