HARRIS David Evan

deharris@cal.berkeley.edu

http://www.GlobalLives.org

David Evan Harris is currently completing his master’s degree in Sociology at the University of São Paulo, with his thesis focusing on relationships between domestic workers and their employers in the US and Brazil. He graduated from UC Berkeley in 2003 with a bachelor’s degree in Political Economy of Development. He is also the Director of the Global Lives Project (www.GlobalLives.org).

ALBA Venezuela’s answer to free trade : the Bolivarian alternative for the Americas

> Occasional Paper n°3, Focus on the Global South and Hemispherical Social Alliance, October 2006

The Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) represents the first attempt at regional integration that is not based primarily on trade liberalization but on a new vision of social welfare and equity. Alternatives are often either theoretical to the point of impracticality, or so micro that scaling up presents huge challenges. ALBA is both large-scale and, to an increasing degree, taking concrete shape. While many aspects of the project are still unrealized or only in the process of (...) read

date of on-line publication : 12 January 2007