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Jim Boyce participates in seminar on agrarian policies and Colombia’s post-conflict transition at the Department of National Planning in Bogota, presents lecture at the Universidad de los Andes

Jim Boyce participated in a seminar on agrarian policies and Colombia’s post-conflict transition at the Department of National Planning in Bogota, and presented a lecture on external assistance and post-conflict transitions at the Universidad de los Andes. Video of the latter is here (my presentation, which is in English, starts at around 41:30 on the top tape); and press coverage is here:
http://www.elespectador.com/noticias/economia/agro-sostenible-una-paz-durable-articulo-568301. (This article is in Spanish; see English translation below.)
Agro sostenible – English version

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See interview with Michael Ash in AGORA, a documentary on the Greek crisis.

Click here to watch…..

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Léonce Ndikumana Op-Ed in TheConversation.com: “How Africa can overcome being marginalised in the global economy”

One of the challenges facing African countries is that the global environment is rather unfriendly. This hampers their efforts to gainfully tap into global markets.

Additionally, African economies are hindered by them still depending heavily on external assistance. Domestic revenue mobilisation is substantially below potential and progress in this area is very slow.

How to handle these challenges has typically focused on what African countries should do to improve their positions, and what their development partners or donors should do to improve the continent’s economic fate.  Read more…..

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Raul Zelada Aprili, Gerald Friedman guest bloggers on TripleCrisis.com: “The Slow Burn: The Washington Consensus and Long-Term Austerity in Latin America”

This article originally appeared in the July/August issue of Dollars & Sense.
For over thirty years after World War II, Latin American governments promoted economic growth and development through policies that favored domestic industrialization. Capital controls (restrictions on international capital mobility) and trade protections helped promote “import substitution”—producing goods domestically that previously had been imported—rather than exports. Most Latin American countries—including those, like Chile and Brazil, where democratically elected leftist governments were overthrown in the 1960s and 1970s—reversed course to adopt “neoliberal” economic policies.  Read more…..