Since the mid-1980s, Chile has been one of the world's fastest-growing countries, despite the recession in 1999-2000.Read more at location 977
Note: CILE DA RECORD Edit
This growth lowered substantially the fraction of the population living in poverty, even though indexes of the distribution of income did not change much.Read more at location 979
Note: LOTTA ALLA POVERTÀ. NN ALLE DISEG Edit
infant mortality fell from around 80 per thousand in the early 1970s to about 11 in 2000, and life expectancy climbed from sixty-four to seventy-five years. Read more at location 980
Undoubtedly, Chile's outstanding economic performance derived from the free-market reforms instituted by the administration of General Augusto Pinochet from 1973 to 1989.Read more at location 981
Some of this antipathy derives from the general's poor human rights record, especially in the 1974-1976 period after the coup against President Salvador Allende. The crimes of these years did not seem necessary for preventing revolutionRead more at location 982
Note: 74 76. VIOLAZIONE DIRITTI NN NECESSARIA Edit
Pinochet ought to receive credit for peacefully relinquishing most of his authority in 1989.Read more at location 984
Note: RINUNCIA AI POTERI Edit
no one has done more than Pinochet and his economic teams to demonstrate the superiority of free-market capitalism over socialism.Read more at location 986
Note: PERCHÈ P È TANTO ODIATO? Edit
An amnesty law allowed the country to achieve sufficient consensus to consolidate democracy without destroying the pro-market economic system.Read more at location 987
Note: UN BUON COMPROMESSO DOPO LA DITTATURA Edit
This consensus was disturbed by the propensity of the administration of President Eduardo Frei to prosecute retired generals for crimes of the 1970s. Further trouble came in London in October 1998 when Pinochet was arrestedRead more at location 988
Note: LE TURBATIVE SUCCESSIVE Edit
Chilean government responded with only mild objections. Fortunately, a Chilean panel of judges decided in 2001, after Pinochet had been returned to Chile, that the former general could not be tried for his alleged crimes because of his poor health. Read more at location 990
Thus, the policies would not cause great economic harm but would also not lead to further economic improvements. Read more at location 994
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The overthrow of Zaire's (now the Democratic Republic of Congo's) long-time dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, had barely been accomplished in 1997 when the victor, Laurent Kabila, heard the standard Western clamor for democracy.Read more at location 946
Note: CONGO. CAMBIO DELLA GUARDIA. BDA VKABILA CI SI ATENDE DEMOCR Edit
Interestingly, we are now hearing similar ideas expressed for the post-conflict Afghanistan. Read more at location 948
Note: STESSO COPIONE AFGH Edit
The push for instant democracy in 1997 in the new Congo somehow seemed unfair.Read more at location 948
Note: LA RICHIESTA DI DEMO INGIUSTA: NESSUN PREMIO X I MERITEVOLI Edit
What then was the reward for leading a risky revolution that eliminated the person who had led his country to more than thirty years of negative average economic growth?Read more at location 950
History makes clear that democratic institutions have little chance of survival when the standard of living is this low.Read more at location 954
Note: POVERTÀ... DEMO NSOSTWNIBILE. LA DEMO BENE DI LUSSO Edit
One also has to recall that the prospects for democracy in Africa looked better in the 1960s than they do now. However, the optimistic outlook in the 1960s was never realistic;Read more at location 959
Note: DEM IN AFRICA. MEGLIO NEI 60 Edit
Democracy, in the sense of political rights and civil liberties, is, in any case, not the characteristic of institutions that matters most for economic performance.Read more at location 961
Note: DEMO E CRESCITA. NESSUN VINCOLO Edit
although some dictators have delivered good economic results-Pinochet in Chile, Lee in Singapore, Fujimori for awhile in Peru, Park in South Korea, and the shah in Iran-the list of economic failures among dictators is larger: Marcos in the Philippines, Mao in China, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, Duvalier in Haiti, and a cast of despots in sub-Saharan Africa.Read more at location 963
Note: DOTTATORI E CRESCOTA. PROBLEMI Edit
The favorable economic effects from democracy seem, however, to disappear once a country attains a moderate degree of liberalization, such as that characteristic through the 1990s in places such as Malaysia, Mexico, and Turkey. Further expansions of democratic freedoms toward the Western ideal seem to come at the expense of economic growth. Read more at location 965
Note: IL BENE DELLA DEMO SPARISCE SUBOTO Edit
Such a system tends to favor redistributions from rich to poor and, more specifically, the expansions of social welfare programsRead more at location 967
Note: PERCHÈ DEMO IMPOVERISCE? WELFARE Edit
maintenance of secure property rights, promotion of the rule of law, fostering of free markets domestically and for international trade, macroeconomic stability, and investments in education, health, and some forms of infrastructure.Read more at location 969
Note: COSA GIOVA ALLA CRESITA. SOLITO ELENCO Edit
there is a good deal of evidence that economic prosperity leads eventually to sustainable expansions of democracy.Read more at location 971
Note: PROSPEROTÀ SPINGE DEMO Edit
The best advice that outsiders could have offered Kabila, before he was assassinated in 2001 and then succeeded by his son, was not to focus on elections and power sharing but rather to emphasize the growth-promoting policiesRead more at location 972
Note: IL MIGLIOR CONSOGLIO X KABILA. PUNTA SULLA CRESCITA NN SULLA DEMO Edit
