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▼OneoftheKoreanpoliciescriticizedforpopulism,freeschoollunchprogram
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inthenBrazil,thenumberofpeoplelivinginpovertyisabout
successful right party in Europe. The party,
50 million and a child died of starvation per 5 minutes. In
whichwasestablishedin1972,hadaccounted
thissituation,theBrazilianPresidentLulaovercameinflation,
for five percent in the Norwegian Parliament
reformed government employee’s pension system, increased
in 1973 and expanded their parliamentary
foreign-currency holdings, reached an agreement between
seat by 22.1 percent. They, different from
classesandimplementedconditionalwelfaresystemtorealize
other populism, spoke for the rich, who
a welfare system supporting the disadvantaged. Therefore,
feel they paid by tax, and laborers, who are stricken with a
during his term, the poor rate in Brazil was decreased from
victim mentality to immigrants. They insisted reducing taxes
34 percent to 22 percent, and rate of economic growth in
for them, privatizing national property, severely punishing
Brazil was increased by 7.5 percent. Also, Brazilian GDP
criminals, tightening immigration rules and stopping
had tripled, foreign-currency holdings had increased by 10
development assistance to developing countries. Especially,
timessincehisinauguration,andinflationratedecreasedfrom
theycontendedthatrisingrateofunemploymentandeconomic
12.5 percent to 5.6 percent. Finally, Brazil became a creditor
inequality can be solved by investing Norwegian enormous
nationandtheworld8thgreateconomicpower.Consequently,
petroleum fund not in foreign marketable securities but in
Lula’s populism is judged to be successful. This populism
welfare policies like supporting schools, health services and
has the uppermost limit in that not implemented universal
gasolinesubsidies,whichwererecognizedaspublicdemands.
welfare.Policiesthatsignificantlyreducedthepovertyrateand
So, many parties in Norway adopted the progressive party’s
developed Brazilian economy should be regarded as a good
insistence.Thispopulismhasacriticalpointinthatstrengthen
populism.
thought, Norwegian V.S. immigrant. But, as they reflected
publicdemandsandsuggestedanalternativeforimplementing
welfare,theirpopulismisjudgedtobesuccessful.
InJapan
The former head of the Japanese
government, Junichiro Koizumi, was also
Populism is a neutral word, not a negative word as we are
judged to be successful. He compared vested
currentlyusingit.Populismcanbeanegativeworddepending
interests to vultures and vested rights to evil
on standpoints about objectives. But, like Brazilian, Japanese
doers,hethentriedtooverthrowthemwhich
and Norwegian populism, populism can be a positive word.
collusively tied relations between government and businesses,
Andaslikeanacademicdefinition,theFrenchRevolutioncan
and dissipated Japanese national budget. Thus, he became
be populism. By using populism exactly, we have to demand
popular by breaking them down, and privatizing post office.
policies, which do not ruin our economy by measuring
Thereasonwhythesepolicieswerejudgedtobesuccessfulis
budgetprecisely,andarefittingpublicdemandswhicharenot
to reduce dissipating national budget, and his approval rating
controlledbyonlytheelite.Firstofall,withoutimplementing
wasover50percentathisretirement.
any policies to judge their efficacy, unconditional criticism
shoulddisappear.
InNorway
The Progressive Party in Norway is judged as the most
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