India is best compared, as I subsequently said in a posting at Forbes.com, with Indonesia in terms of political economy and the impediments to growth.

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They think the growth of the informal economy has weakened the state and political parties fertile ground for caudillos, whether of the left, like Mr Chavez, or the right, like Mr Fujimori.

ECONOMIST: The slow road to reform

Beyond the political effects of his death, Chavez will leave behind an economy suffering from high inflation and rising GDP growth.

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