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05-11-2011, 03:30 PM
President Leonel Fernandez says that he never called for a merge between neo-liberalism and neo-populism, as reported in the press yesterday when covering the II International Forum of Santo Domingo (Dialogue on Democracy, Development, Social Cohesion and Security in Latin America). He said he was misinterpreted when he spoke of integration between policies of the two models.
He explained at the forum that in Latin America in recent years there has been a debate between a neo-populist model, where the government plays a central role in development, and a neoliberal role where the market is the principal force. Fernandez called for a vision that would go beyond market fundamentalism and neo-populism. "That moves us to be creative, imaginative, innovate in the creation of a Latin American model for sustainable development," he said.
How to get beyond neo-liberalism and neo-populism, and perhaps the answer is in the integration of the two," he said during his talk. He observed, "how we can create ties of the state with the market is another great controversy, the other debate we have before us." Fernandez said he never called for the fusing or merger of policies of neo-liberalism and neo-populism, but for their integration.
President Leonel Fernandez said it was regrettable that a formula to resolve the world economic crisis has still not been found two years on. In his keynote speech earlier this week at the II International Forum of Santo Domingo, called "Dialogue on Democracy, Development, Social Cohesion and Security in Latin America" at the Global Democracy and Development Foundation (Funglode), the President stressed that the market has to exist wherever there are exchanges between human beings. He stated that the problem for Latin America is that "we have states that are fiscally weak".
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He explained at the forum that in Latin America in recent years there has been a debate between a neo-populist model, where the government plays a central role in development, and a neoliberal role where the market is the principal force. Fernandez called for a vision that would go beyond market fundamentalism and neo-populism. "That moves us to be creative, imaginative, innovate in the creation of a Latin American model for sustainable development," he said.
How to get beyond neo-liberalism and neo-populism, and perhaps the answer is in the integration of the two," he said during his talk. He observed, "how we can create ties of the state with the market is another great controversy, the other debate we have before us." Fernandez said he never called for the fusing or merger of policies of neo-liberalism and neo-populism, but for their integration.
President Leonel Fernandez said it was regrettable that a formula to resolve the world economic crisis has still not been found two years on. In his keynote speech earlier this week at the II International Forum of Santo Domingo, called "Dialogue on Democracy, Development, Social Cohesion and Security in Latin America" at the Global Democracy and Development Foundation (Funglode), the President stressed that the market has to exist wherever there are exchanges between human beings. He stated that the problem for Latin America is that "we have states that are fiscally weak".
www.presidencia.gob.do/app/do_2011/article.aspx?id=13752 (http://www.presidencia.gob.do/app/do_2011/article.aspx?id=13752)
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