A Quote by Alejandro Castro Espin

Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua have shown that by breaking with the unfair order imposed by the neoliberal adjustment policies, promoted by Washington and the western powers, they already have a more favorable economic development, and even a better social development.

Alejandro Castro Espin

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Alejandro Castro Espin
Born: July 29, 1965

Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua have made a tremendous leap just by rejecting the neoliberal adjustment policies, they are making a statement from the social perspective. Capital in these cases has not been protected in any way which along with non - interference of the state is what neo liberalism stands for. It has gone the other way around; they have looked for social policies from the political movements and then when they have acquired the power of those political movements they have become in charge of the State.

Alejandro Castro Espin

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Ralph Linton

The poorest country in South America, Bolivia, had been devastated by neoliberal economic policies.

Noam Chomsky

Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador lived through times of cruel and ruthless capitalism where the workers, the masses of the population, saw themselves living in a precarious state of employment and subsistence conditions. The impact of this reality took hold and impacted the evolution of the social situation of those countries and even though that produced movements that were not exactly political movements but social movements.

Alejandro Castro Espin

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Stephen Kinzer

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Robert Zoellick

If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn't work. You have to do it all together.

Aga Khan IV

What Asia's postwar economic miracle demonstrates is that capitalism is a path toward economic development that is potentially available to all countries. No underdeveloped country in the Third World is disadvantaged simply because it began the growth process later than Europe, nor are the established industrial powers capable of blocking the development of a latecomer, provided that country plays by the rules of economic liberalism.

Francis Fukuyama

Marxists have some way of analyzing the development of affairs which enables them to judge far in advance of scientific thinkers what the trend of social and economic development is to be.

John Desmond Bernal

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Aung San Suu Kyi

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Dale Jamieson

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Robert Pollin

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Aga Khan IV

In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.