Here it all is, though draped in the banners of the prophet of Islam and his family: state-controlled industry, neglected agriculture, urbanisation, economic autarchy, suppressing the tribes and ethnic minorities, state handouts, mass education and the release of women from seclusion.
The state's outgoing governor, Victor Cervera, was known for mass handouts of bicycles and washing-machines.
It centralised food aid after the cyclone, and organised three mass handouts, reaching 211,000 people on 80 of Vanuatu's 91 islands.
In a letter to the Lancet, Dr Tim Allen from the London School of Economics and Dr Melissa Parker from Brunel University warned that there were problems with mass drug handouts.
Despite the mass emails, handouts, and phone calls put out by AFP's Georgia chapter, when the group held a protest during the Public Service Commission deliberations, hardly anyone showed up.
And, in the run-up to the by-election, the government offered voters lots of goodies: more measures to cool the heated property market; a planned doubling of the mass-transit network; handouts and more incentives for new parents; more money for the care of disabled children.As Mr Lee acknowledged in 2011, the PAP's problem is partly one of style.
Mr León, the pollster, points out that Mr Chávez is trying to change "an instrumental relationship with the masses"—based on handouts and economic growth into an ideological one.Government buildings are now adorned with Patria, socialismo o muerte ("Motherland, socialism or death"), adapted from a slogan coined by Fidel Castro in the early years of the Cuban revolution half a century ago.
The UN's World Food Programme is trying to keep 2m people alive with food handouts but says that another 3m may need feeding by early next year if mass starvation is to be averted.
Against heavy odds, Congress may yet produce a decent national transportation bill that would make needed investments in roads, bridges and mass transit without undermining environmental protections or providing handouts to big polluters.
One clinician felt that mass media coverage of the issue would be more useful than handouts: " I'm always hesitant to hit…with handouts and pamphlets… I don't think that people really pay attention to that…they're already kind of in the office.
