Lack of reasonably independent regulation and competent public administration – or, worse, one-person dictatorships – lead inexorably to economic waste and inefficiency, and eventually to political turmoil. This is true even in cases like Venezuela, where large oil revenues masked the underlying weakness for a while.
缺乏适当独立的监管和称职的公共行政机构——或是更糟糕的一人专制——无可避免地导致经济上的浪费和低效，最后引发政治风波。这在委内瑞拉这样在短期内用巨额石油收入掩盖了潜在缺陷的国家也是如此。在21世纪的复杂全球经济下，长期持续的良好经济成效取决于一整套运作良好的机制，不可被一个单一领导人所左右。