Conference on Venezuelan Politics: Quantifying Venezuela’s Destructive Conflict

Friday, October 18, 2024. 1:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Chicago Booth Harper Center Room C05, University of Chicago, Illinois.

Speakers:

Francisco Rodriguez Director, Oil For Venezuela. Rice Family Professor Josef Korbel School, Denver University

Osmel Manzano Adjunct Professor, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University

Chang-Tai Hsieh Phyllis and Irwin Winkelried Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and PCL Faculty Scholar, University of Chicago

Moderator:

Jennifer McCoy Professor, Georgia State University

Cooperative Responses to Venezuela’s Crisis: A Roadmap for Negotiations

Wednesday, November 1, 2023. 12:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

The Forum SIE Complex, Denver University, Colorado.

Speakers:

David Smilde Charles A. and Leo M. Favrot Professor of Human Relations, Tulane University.

William Neumann Journalist.

Francisco Rodriguez Director, Oil For Venezuela. Rice Family Professor Josef Korbel School, Denver University

Moderator:

Paula Ramón. Journalist, Agence France-Presse.

Impact of Unilateral Sanctions on Health-Related SDGs

Wednesday, September 20, 2023.

Side Event during the 54th Session of the UN Human Rights Council, Geneva.

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Speakers:

Hector Constant Rosales Permanent Representative of Venezuela to the United Nations Office

Michael Fakhri UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food

Francisco Rodriguez Director, Oil For Venezuela. Rice Family Professor Josef Korbel School, Denver University

Moderator:

Alena Douhan, UN Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights

Season 2, Episode 14: Francisco Rodriguez, The Human Consequences of Economic SanctionsVenezuela Negotiations: Light at the End of the Tunnel?

Tuesday, August 22, 2023.

Book Club with Jeff Sachs Podcast

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Interviewd:

Francisco Rodriguez Director, Oil For Venezuela. Rice Family Professor Josef Korbel School, Denver University

Interviewer:

Jeffrey Sachs Director, Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University

Sanctions and Human Development

Fifty percent of people in the developing world today live in a country subject to trade sanctions. There is significant evidence that these sanctions affect the capabilities and freedoms enjoyed by people living in these countries. This evidence raises serious questions regarding the ethical implications of sanctions regimes. I sketch several proposals to reform sanctions regimes so as to reduce their negative consequences on economic and human development. 

The Global Seigniorage Duopoly

The inadequacy of global liquidity provision and the unequal distribution of its benefits stem from a fundamental distortion: the exercise of market power by the two largest issuers of international currencies.  The United States and Europe jointly provide the currencies used for 79 percent of global reserves and 91 percent of trade invoicing, forming a duopoly in the means of payment used by the world economy. The exercise of this market power allows them to capture the bulk of seigniorage rents associated with the provision of global liquidity while constraining developing country growth and limiting the scope of global countercyclical policies.  Were the International Monetary Fund to comply with its statutory obligation to make Special Drawing Rights the principal reserve asset in the international monetary system, developing countries would gain access to a source of finance currently monopolized by advanced economies.