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Nearly a thousand delegates from Cuba and 40 countries of the five continents —including economists, sociologists, political experts and social scientists— will analyze more than 200 presentations on the world’s most pressing economic and social problems.

The Ninth International Conference on Globalization and the Problems of Development opens today in Havana to analyze problems of critical human import, especially those which have occurred over the last decade, reported AIN.

Nearly a thousand delegates from Cuba and 40 countries of the five continents —including economists, sociologists, political experts and social scientists— will analyze more than 200 presentations on the world’s most pressing economic and social problems.

Two of such papers to be presented are “The Myth of National Capitalist Development in the New Politic Situation off Latin America,” by Argentinean economist Atilio Boron, and “ALBA: Advances and Tensions in the Bolivarian Popular Integration Process,” by Alberto Montero Soler, from the University of Malaga, Spain.

The Havana Convention Center will be the principal cite of the conference taking place from February 5 to 9. In the plenary and in 25 other committees, the most important issues addressed will be those related to monetary matters, such as the unsolved foreign debt problem, government assistance for development, remittances, and the performance of the main currencies and gold.

There will be also discussions on the Doha Development Round and the effects of the NAFTA Free Trade Agreement between the United States, Mexico and Canada, headed by the World Trade Organization (WTO). Likewise, there will be discussions on transformations occurring in China, Russia and Eastern Europe – situations that will be analyzed by specialist on these regions.

Other presentations will be related to women in the economy, comprehensive development, and the study of specific cases, such as the Panama Canal and the strikes by miners and students in Chile.

Sources among the organizing committee said that Serbia and Poland are among the countries which take part in this conference for the first time.

This year’s conference will be attended by representatives of 27 international organizations, including three delegates from the World Bank, officials of the WTO, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Latin American Economic System (SELA) and the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR).

Free market “neo-liberal” globalization is a complex multi-phase process and a factor in the current stage of the internationalization of the capitalist relations of production, which allows US imperialism and its European allies to enjoy tremendous privilege at the expense of the impoverished Third World.

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