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Felipe Pérez Martí

Minister of Planning and Development under Chavez and is currently professor at IESA, a business administration school. Pérez is also a leading member of Conexión Social (www.conexionsocial.org.ve)

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The Venezuelan Model of Development: The Path of Solidarity

by Felipe Pérez Martí

Caracas (Venezuela) | 7 June 2004

If one were to define the model of development using a standard terminology, one would say that what we have is «development from below», or «trickle up» economics, as opposed to «trickle down» economics. Given that the vast majority of people in Venezuela are impoverished, attention to the (…)