A View from Porto Alegre

François Houtart

Chapter 11 in Development Models, Globalization and Economies, 2006, pp 189-199 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Since 2001 Porto Alegre, a city in southern Brazil, has been the venue of an annual gathering of social movements, NGOs and intellectuals searching for alternatives to neoliberalism. They meet during the last week of January, at the same time that the World Economic Forum takes place at Davos. In 1999 it started with some 50 people constituting ‘The Other Davos’, when five movements from various continents (the Landless Movement of Brazil, the Trade Unions of South Korea, the Rural Cooperatives of Burkina Faso, the Women’s Movement of Quebec and the Movement of the Unemployed of France), together with some intellectuals like Samir Amin, Susan George and Riccardo Petrella, were brought together in Zürich by the World Forum for Alternatives, with a press conference in Davos (Houtart and Polet, 2000).

Keywords: Iodine Deficiency; North American Free Trade Agreement; World Economic Forum; Washington Consensus; Military Dictatorship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230523555_11

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