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Venezuela fact of the day

http://www.marginalrevolution.com/margin…

…despite Chavez’s “revolution for the poor” the Gini coefficient [in Venezuela] has increased from 0.44 in 2000 to 0.48 in 2005.

Heh.

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3 Responses to “Venezuela fact of the day”

  1. Anton Sherwood Says:
    August 22nd, 2007 at 7:41 pm

    “despite”?

  2. HTRN Says:
    August 23rd, 2007 at 1:15 am

    “despite” is Hippy for “because of”.

  3. Anton Sherwood Says:
    August 30th, 2007 at 9:35 pm

    Was that one of the entries in Poul Anderson’s satiric dictionary (in a time-travel story whose title I’ve forgotten)?