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Have a very SPERI Xmas!
The last post of 2014 appeared yesterday on SPERI Comment: the political economy blog. The blog will resume life during the first working week of the New Year and will begin with an important analysis of the current position of global trade governance. SPERI has had another busy year and we have produced a short 2014 Xmas Newsletter, which can … Continue reading
Chávez vs UKIP? How Latin America has reinvigorated the European left
Radical left parties, Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain, did well in the recent European elections. But how far can they go? And what are the lessons for the UK? The numbers speak for themselves. Though currently in opposition, both its plurality in European elections and recent polling suggest that Syriza (Coalition of the Radical Left) will soon become … Continue reading
ALBA: an important but poorly understood regional project
Economic and political problems in Venezuela now threaten many of the real achievements of this alternative mode of regionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean Venezuela has an abundance of oil and a lack of doctors. Cuba has an abundance of doctors and a lack of oil. On 14 December 2004, the two countries launched the Bolivarian Alliance for the … Continue reading →
20 January 2015 by Asa Cusack
Categories: Development, Economics, Global South, Politics and policy, SPERI Comment, trade | Tags: ALBA, Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua, oil, OPEC, Venezuela | Leave a comment