DarthVolod said:
More like what's left of the private sector ... only 1/3 of the companies that were there as recently as 1999 still remain. Chavez and Maduro basically declared war on the private sector and only a small fraction of what it was remains. What little is left of the private sector will continue to fade away, just give them time. They are doing a fantastic job of running the country into the ground as quickly as they can. |
Between 1999 and 2011 the share of economy activity from the private sector rose from 65% to 71%. Also provided is an article from Fox News, which also talks about the private sector in the country and offers some more stats. Indeed the public sector was 30% of the GDP in Venezuela compared to 25% in Sweden.
Why Venezuela is in Crisis (The Nation)
What Socialism?... (Fox News)
I suggest you also read the articles in my reply to sc94597 to see how half baked Chavez's "socialism" was. Chavez was a socialist that ran a bloated social democracy that was bound to pop when a shock like 2014's oil crisis hit. He was still working within a capitalist framework and it doesn't matter what your personal ideology is because if you run a country just as poorly as Chavez then you're still going to crash the economy.
In fact, the last economic crisis in Venezuela happened in the mid 1990s while a neoliberal government was in power and it was caused by low oil prices and financial liberalization. Before that, Venezuela had another economic crisis in the 1980s, once again caused by an oil shock and neoliberal policies. Almost as if there's a common theme to all these crisis...
I think you realise this as well which is why you avoided answering my two questions in favour of making a point about the declining private sector in the country.
