timmons anthony [occupylondoninternational] Public meeting: Ecuador’s Economic Miracle - putting people before profit (26 June) Julian Assange 2 years on June 19th - Ecuadorian Embassy, 6pm- 2ond year Anniversary solidarity vigil --- On Fri, 6/6/14, Friends of Ecuador wrote: Friends of Ecuador > Subject: Public meeting: Ecuador’s Economic Miracle - putting people before profit (26 June) > Ecuador’s Economic > Miracle > > Putting people before profit > With Andrés > Arauz, Ecuadors Vice Minister for Economic and > Social Development > Thursday 26 > June, 7pm, Central London venue > (tbc) > > > Ecuador is being > today transformed by progressive policies that are putting > people first. > These are delivering > free healthcare and free education, tackling poverty and > creating a more equal society. > Yet just over a decade > ago things were very different. Then a massive banking > crisis caused an economic collapse. Unemployment rocketed > and one in ten people left their country to escape the > crisis. > Ecuador’s > Citizen’s Revolution – led by President Rafael > Correa – has changed all this. Ecuador is today experiencing strong > economic growth and even during the global economic crisis, > there was no recession in Ecuador. Ecuador now has the > lowest unemployment rate in its history. > Challenging the ideas > behind austerity economics, a huge programme of public > investment is the motor of Ecuador’s economic growth > and its building of a more inclusive society. Four times > more is spent on health and education than a decade ago > after Ecuador scrapped the illegal debt owed to > international financial agencies and devoted this instead to > public services. > Ordinary people are > benefiting from all this change. Ecuador has reduced > reducing inequality faster than any other Latin America > country in recent years through measures to ensure that > wealthiest can no longer avoid paying taxes and by creating > a nationwide Living Wage. > As a result, the United > Nations ranks Ecuador as one of the three countries in the > world that has most advanced human development in recent > years. > All these changes are > popular with President Correa and his coalition of > supporters winning 10 sets of elections since 2007. > Come and find out more > about how Ecuador shows there is an > alternative. > > > > > Organised by > > > More > info on Friends of Ecuador > > Powered > by YMLP > > >
Posted on: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 19:09:27 +0000
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