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Notes ● 20994. Neal Conan, Talk of the Nation, NPR, December 9, 2003.95. David Kennett, “The Role of Law in a Market Economy,” in Kennett andLieberman, The Road to Capitalism.96. Ibid., p. 99.97. Ibid., p. 107.98. World Economic Forum, Global Competitiveness Report 2000, Table 3.09.99. Peter E. Tarlow and Gui Santana, “Providing Safety for Tourists: A Study ofa Selected Sample of Tourist Destinations in the United States and Brazil,”Journal of Travel Research 40, no. 4 (2002).100. Cynthia Enloe, Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense ofInternational Politics (London: Pandora, 1990), p. 31.101. For a good discussion of the growth promoting tendencies of capitalism anda review of literature, see Jay Mandle, Patterns of Caribbean Development (NewYork: Gordon and Breach, 1982), chap. 2. For empirical evidence of growth,see Jay Mandle, “Basic Needs and Economic Systems,” Review of SocialEconomy 38, no. 2 (1980).102. These characteristics include the private ownership of the means of production,a free labor force that hires out its labor for wages, the progressiveconcentration of capital, and production for the market.103. For a discussion of the role of technology in capitalism, see M. Zarkovic, Issuesin Indian Agricultural Development (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1987),chap. 8.104. World Economic Forum, Global Competitiveness Report, pp. xiv–xvi.105. In addition to these, liberalization also takes place in income redistributionand worker participation, but these are minor and will not be addressed inthis study.106. World Bank, “Sustaining India’s Services Revolution: Access to ForeignMarkets, Domestic Reform and International Negotiations,” South AsiaRegion: India (World Bank, 2004), p. 15.107. World Bank, Doing Business, www.doingbusiness.org/exploreeconomies/ andwww.doingbusiness.org/EconomyRankings/, accessed February 11, 2006.108. To further bolster their case, Thai authorities tout the fact that the EconomistIntelligence Unit ranked Thailand 9th in e-readiness in Asia (Economist,October 15, 2005, p. 83).109. World Bank, Doing Business.110. Ames Gross, “Updates on Malaysia’s Medical Markets.”111. The special program allows foreigners to buy property and to reside inMalaysia for up to five years.112. Miami Herald, May 28, 2006.113. World Bank, “Sustaining India’s Services Revolution,” p. 34.114. Ellen Wasserman, “Trade in Health Services in the Region of Americas,” inWHO, Trade in Health Services, www.who.int/trade/en/THpart3chap10pdf,accessed March 21, 2006.115. Arvind Panagariya, “The Protection Racket,” Foreign Policy (September/October 2005): p. 95.