Why we went to Porto Alegre: Bloc Qu&ea;b&ea;cois promotes humanity. As Joseph E. Stiglitz said, ‘integration of the world economy works well when sovereign countries define terms’ [International Development Policy Briefing]

From Jan. 30 to Feb. 5, 2002, Porto Alegre, Brazil, was playing host to the second World Social Forum. First held in 2001 in response to the traditional economic forum in Davos, this event is intended to provide an open forum for discussion of the impacts of globalization and consideration of pro...

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